Day 41 - Thunder and lightning

The forecast for today was to start off a little bit of drizzle with more rain coming later in the day, so I decided I’d like to go for a run in the morning, and leave Marla and Charlie at camp to do whatever exercise they’d like to do.

Rewinding a little, yesterday I pre-ordered a baguette and a couple of pain au chocolates from Carlos (owner), who bakes everything fresh if you pre-order. I collected these at 8:30 AM with a view to have the pastries once I’d gone for a run, they smelt so good that I almost caved and ate it while it was still warm - but I’d not been for a run in ages, so off I went up the road to do an out and back run. And I do mean up the road, it’s not flat around here! It ended up being and out and back and round and round as I ran out of road and ended up in someone’s farm, and then going the other way was so downhill that I didn’t think I’d make it back up again! The weather almost held out for me, I got wet in the last 5 minutes.
The strangest thing I saw on my run was a few barns full of cows, and they were all absolutely silent! It was really eerie - cows back home are so noisy.

Charlie did a camp workout and did some shuttle runs around the camp with Marla so she got to join in.
Then we finally got to have our pastries, I was so excited I forgot to take a photo 😂.

Then it was time to shower and set off some washing, this is the first place that use of the washing machine is included in the camp fee, so we wanted to make use of it! It’s just a shame there’s no dryer, and it started to rain more heavily once we set off the wash. No worries, we had the awning up so could rig a washing line under there.

Time for lunch and we opened up the giant babybel! That was pretty exciting. I also had a Spanish tortilla that I’d picked up from the supermarket a couple of days ago. It was strangely wet…. but it couldn’t have been awful as I ate it all!

The rain eased off a bit later on in the afternoon so we took Marla out for a walk, unfortunately there’s no trails from camp so we went up the road I ran this morning until it ran out then came back down again. I showed Charlie the quiet cows and he couldn’t believe it either!

Back to the van to feed Marla and sort out our own dinner. Stuffed pasta with a jar of tomato sauce and part baked baguettes finished off in the oven. Most of this was edible…. the bread not so much. The sauce had big lumps of carrot in, and tasted like it needed to be cooked down for a bit longer.

Then the big rain came… and the thunder and lightning…. Poor Marla was not a fan of any of this. We could see why we weren’t allowed to pitch up on the grass - it just flooded immediately. I took a step out and the water just came up out of the ground. It’s not quite like anything we’ve seen before. Unfortunately our clean washing under the awning was getting wet, so I donned my jacket and went and collected everything up. Then I realised we needed to take the awning down as it was getting quite gusty, and then saw the cargo box was sitting on the floor getting wet. Worried for the electrics that get plugged into the tow bar, I had to enlist Charlie’s help and we put the contraception back on the tow bar (we’d taken it off as it was supposed to be better under the awning….).

Now time for a quiet night it - I got the crochet out, and Charlie played on his switch.

There’s more of the same forecast for tomorrow so we are definitely moving on tomorrow in search of drier weather!Læs mere