Anything On Four Legs!

I had a disaster of a night’s sleep, whereas Cinderella and Loup slept soundly. Not sure why as normally I sleep really well in Roxvanne.
At just before 7am I decided enough was enough and got up - much to Loup’s delight. I opened the van to be met by a beautiful early morning mountain scene with not a cloud in the sky - so different to last night. I also saw that about 50m down the hill was a fairly substantial car park that we could not even see last night.
I took a couple of photos of the mountains and turned to find a number of cows standing near Roxvanne looking at me. I obviously hadn’t seen them when I got out as my eyes were on the mountains.
Whilst Loup sat and had a stare out with the cows, the sound of bells got ever closer once more - this time donkeys. About 15-20 of them casually walking off the mountain side across the road and into the large car park, where they proceeded to use any van they could as a scratching post.
Tre tumbled out of the van to see what all the commotion was about and to see the views. As we stood looking across the road to the valley and highest mountains approximately four tan coloured horses came from that direction straight towards us. I assumed they would turn and walk the road to avoid us - not a chance! All of them walked straight towards me as if a gang looking to sort someone out - and they were small or fragile looking horses . . . they looked like they’d been on steroids.
By the time they passed us by it was time to give Loup a run and then return for a cup of tea and brekkie.
The morning drifted away in bright and hot sunshine. More sighting of donkeys regularly interrupted the relative quiet - I say quite . . . Apart from camper vans, motorbikes, cyclists, walkers and helicopters. The immediate area is getting busy for tomorrow.
The afternoon continued in a similar manner with a number of walks for Loup, on each occasion trying to find some shade. The sun had been out all day with clear blue skies and as a result we had felt a little baked.
More and more people arrived and parked up and then we found out the roads at the bottom had been shut, so those that were here, were here!
The sun finally dropped behind some hills about 8.30pm and so we enjoyed the shade for a couple of hours.
A last walk for Loup and it was bedtime - next stop the mayhem of tomorrow.

No album of the day as we had not been on the road.

Song of the day
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
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