Unfortunately the business ideas workshop on Wednesday did not happen. It feels like in Portugal people do not like to commit to something in advance, but rather like to just turn up. Anyway, here is the complete list which the visitors of the Novas Direcoes Exhibition have contributed to for business ideas for Monchique additionally to some of the ideas we had already:
- Tea room (casa de chá)
- Mushroom picking tour regular in autumn (colheita de cogumelos no Outono.)
- Fruit picking tours (passeio apanta de fruta)
- Portuguese cookery school (escola de hoteleria comida portuguese)
- Monchique Pub Crawl (corrio de mosquitos de tudos os bared de Monchique)
- Public wild boar hunting (caca jevali turistico)
- Rent a dog (alugar um cão)
- Guided tours around Monchique e.g. myths, ledgends, whost walks, secret places (ja existe un passeio de lua cheia, passeio guiado de lugares secretos)
- Craft workshops for tourists (workshop artesanato)
- Contemporary souvenirs of Monchique, like these from Lisbon ( loja de lembrancas fixe)
- Traditional crafst made contemporary (artesanato tradicional contemporaneo)
- Tour agency showing tourists around medronho producers / crafts people ( agencia de turismo artenal)
- Ice cream shop (je existe)
- Hostel (hostel!)
- Horeriding (hiqutacao)
- Bike horse place (alugar biciletas)
- Youth projects (projectos de jovens)
- Artist and workshop street in empty shop front along the main stair case road (Rua de artesanato)
Monchique Novas Direcoes 