Monks Cowl Day 2

The weather held off overnight and eventually by the early hours it had stopped raining altogether. We got up at 6:30am, I replaced the pole in the awning that had bent and emptied all of the water off of the roof. It was a very damp morning and quite cold.
After a couple of coffees we headed over to the shower block to shower and they were a nightmare. We had read the reviews online about how crap the ablutions were and apparently these were the good ones.
The shower itself is divided into 2 sections, a dressing part and then the actual shower. Across the first dressing part I had a shower curtain that was in so many shreds it looked like tassels.
The shower door opened onto the seat in the dressing area so I had to step out from the shredded curtain to open and close the door and once I had showered and opened the door it filled my shoes up with water. The shower itself had no tiles in the wall atall where the taps were and I thought I didn’t have any cold water but it did actually work once the hot water was coming through.
Ellie’s showers were exactly the same except she had no drainage so when she showered she actually flooded the whole block.
Once we were dressed we decided to head out to the shops and see what was in the area and in the way out a black guy was thumbing for a lift so I stopped and asked him where he was going and he said champagne sports. I had no idea where that was but I said we were going to the shops and he said that’s where it was so I said yes jump in and then his whole family appeared from nowhere, so we had him, his daughter about 4 years old and 2 grown women in the back altogether. To top it off when I got to the top of the hill there was another guy waiting and they said he was with them, so I stopped and put him in the boot.
I asked how far away it was and they said it was a kilometre away but 12 kilometres later we were at the shops and luckily that’s where we were going too.
We let them all out, said goodbye and they headed off to the supermarket and Ellie and I went to the tourist shops first and then went to a little cafe for breakfast and to use there internet. Ellie had loaded fries with cheese, bacon and mushrooms and I had a breakfast bowl of bacon, egg, salad with feta cheese and vegetables. It sounds weird but it did actually work.
We were going to need food for the next couple of days so we popped into the supermarket but for meat they just had frozen chicken or beef and we didn’t want that so we came out empty handed except for wood for cooking on the Braai. Then we headed out further down the road and we came to a little farm padstall and here we managed to get 2 wors sausage and a quarter of a watermelon for lunch and some vegetables. We also saw the family we had just given a lift to and they asked if we were heading back and I said not yet and once we got in the car we headed even further down the road for another 15 minutes until Ellie said she wanted to head back for a cup of tea.
We spun around and got back to camp at 12:30pm and then we both had tea. What had been a few hours of blue sky and abit of heat was now turning grey and cloudy and even I had to give in and put trousers on and a thin top. Then Ellie went for a nap while I sat on my own doing my Spanish lessons, and when Ellie got back up the grey clouds had really set in. We had the watermelon and more tea and it started spitting with rain and we decided it was best not to head out for a walk because the weather looked like it could turn nasty, so we just chilled at camp until 4pm and then we decided to take down the awning and put in the spare bed incase more heavy rain came overnight.
Once everything was away we popped down the road to a local hotel called the dragons rest and got a take away pizza each for £12 and then came back to camp and ate it in the visitors outdoor cafe because we were alone. Then we went back to the caravan and took the electric kettle, tea,coffee and milk inside and made tea and that’s where we spent the rest of the evening while it rained outside.Læs mere