Almeida Municipality

After the most peaceful night I slept in while Darren got up and busied himself making coffee and putting the extra solar panels out to top up our batteries. After my second coffee I thought I ought to get out of bed and enjoy this lovely morning. Lucky I did as another farmer arrived to collect water from the river. Had a brief chat with him via google translate as he didn’t speak English and we certainly don’t know any Portuguese. He looked at our UK sign on the van and thought we were Ukrainian. (Slava Ukraini!!🇺🇦) He was a nice jolly man which was a pleasant change from the grumpy people we had come across in Spain.
I decided that rather than waste the water I’d used to wash up I’d give Ivy a bit of a wash, she had so many bug splats all over her front end. I did three sides of her and gave up as it was getting too hot. 🥵
Darren decided he was going for a swim, regardless of the snake we’d seen only yesterday. He assured me it would be fine and because I was so hot I can’t believe it now but I just had to get in to cool off. It was the very first time in my life that I had ever been swimming in a river, let alone one that had snakes in it but it was so refreshing.
I spent the rest of the day lounging in the hammock just soaking up the peace. There was no phone signal so the temptation to pick up the phone wasn’t even a thing. Bliss loved this place so much, the freedom to get in and out of the river whenever she liked and sleep in the shade of the trees most of the day was just perfect for her. We felt pretty safe here so it was decided a bottle of bubbles would be appropriate...🥂 🍾 and it was. 😁
Whilst sat watching the river in the evening we again saw two snakes crossing the river,smaller than yesterday’s monster, but right where we had been swimming earlier in the day! 😳
Just as it started to get dark a van with a young couple turned up and parked just in front of us, so Bliss had to come in and we all went to bed.
Another peaceful night sleep was had. It’s going to be so hard to leave this place in the morning.Read more