Castellfollit de la Roca

We slept with the windows open last night for the first time since we got here and it was much nicer and cooler.
We woke up quite late at about 7:30am but we didn’t have far to go today.
Whilst I had coffee Ellie washed her hair. We don’t know when we’ll next be able to get water or empty the toilet so after having washed ourselves and the dishes our next job was to refill the water and empty the toilet.
Unfortunately we do have a small water leak coming from underneath Wanda and every year we have travelled we have had this problem and I think it’s the pressure relief valve and it’s finally giving up so we may have to find a spares place at some point and try and replace it.
At 9:30am we left our our and our first stop was in the town of Olot for Lidl which was just 15 minutes away. . This store was one of the superstores so twice as large as any of the Lidl we have previously visited and had much more choice to offer.
After shopping it was just a 10 minute drive to our destination of the day Castellfollit de la Roca.
Castellfollit de la Roca is part of La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park. It is built on a massive Basalt rock and the crag where the town is situated is over 50 metres (160 feet) high and almost a kilometre long. It was formed by the overlaying of two lava flows.
After struggling to get to our parking spot initially we did eventually find it and it’s pretty good. There are no services and it’s just some grassland and when we first arrived there must have been 15 motorhomes and camper vans already here.
I have been wanting to come here since I saw it on La Vuelta but when plotting our route I’d already struggled to find anything in the town except for the view from outside and really this is the case.
There are probably 3 shops in town and a restaurant and a pizzeria and that’s it and wandering through the more modern part of town it is abit of a pit. Even the olden parts dating back to the 13th Century aren’t much to look at which surprised us considering how many people have come to visit the town.
I was here for one aerial shot but if I had come with just my normal camera I would have been disappointed because unless you’re in a helicopter you really can’t see the beauty of this place.
Fortunately I had the same view as a helicopter and I sent the drone up risking the high winds and managed to get 10 shots, 5 each from 2 different angles and just as I was landing the drone a resident came out to tell me that drones weren’t allowed. I apologised and she was fine and I didn’t think she was right but on the way back to the town we passed a tiny sign that said no drones. Luckily I didn’t see that beforehand.
We got back to Wanda at 2:30pm and then spent an hour talking to our new Dutch neighbours in there tiny little van like our British post office vans, and they have already been on the road for 2 1/2 years. Then we just chilled for the rest of the afternoon reading and Ellie caught up with some YouTube videos as it was too late to do our next activity a little further along this road.Baca lagi