Rest and recuperation

When we came down from the mountain we found a little clearing by the side of a dirt road to spend the night. We had to drive through some ridiculously narrow village streets praying that we would not get ourselves actually stuck between the buildings, we have seen others on YouTube suffer this fate so it was a real concern. We were relieved to get to the place we were going to stay but it probably wasn’t the wisest choice, when the stormy weather arrived we realised we were right under a big old oak tree. We survived the night though and ended up staying there all the next day and another night. I don’t think we realised how much the day before had taken out of us but we enjoyed a long peaceful day just relaxing in Ivy and gathering ourselves together to get back into the scary mountains once the weather improved. We had depleted our batteries so we planned a trip to an aire the next day that would provide free electricity and water, if only we had this kind of facility in the UK!Read more