Roaming around Portugal in the quest for Anglo Portuguese buses I stumbled upon the Mafrense fleet. At the time (mid 1990s) AEC's still made up a large proportion of the fleet. I'd first encountered their buses in the tourist trap that is Sintra, but curiosity caused me to travel to their home town of Mafra. Now Mafra turned out to be a place worth seeing in it's own right with an enormous palace taking centre stage ... some claim it to be the largest single building in Portugal. Typical of my luck was that it was under restoration whilst I was there, but here's a Mafrense UTIC AEC entering the town centre with the centre portion of the great building as a backdrop.
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