Castelo de Vide Municipality

It was an early start to today, Marla woke us up at 6:20 and wouldn’t go back to sleep - so we all had to get up. Charlie took her outside while I changed the bedroom to the sitting room, and when she came back in she was very insistent it was breakfast time….. unfortunately it really wasn’t and we had 40’mins of a very grumpy puppy.
Eventually I caved and she ate at 7:40. She then happily went back to sleep….

Charlie went down to the beach to do a workout at around 9am. I took Marla down later on in the morning (once her breakfast had gone down) for a final walk up and down the beach as we are moving camp today. There’s a lot more people around today, so I couldn’t let her off lead (a fair few small children), but we had a lovely walk.

Back to camp for a pack up, lunch and then we headed off, we’re going inland for a few days while the weather is supposed to be nice.

First stop though was the supermarket for essentials. Marla had a nice nap while Charlie was off doing the shopping. It’s proving strangely difficult to buy plain natural yogurt.

The next section of the drive was straightforward, but the scenery certainly changed to green trees and more mountainous. We are seeing a lot of the emergent run off sections for lorry’s on the long downhill drives - it’s keep having urges to have a go and see if Big Dave can drive through the sand traps - but it would be disastrous to get stuck…. and a massive misuse of the escape lane.

We arrived safe and sound. This is a peaceful camp in the mountains, with nothing in the immediate area apart from some donkeys and chickens. We had a small issue with the electrics, thankfully resolved quickly by the site owner. A super helpful Dutch man, he realised that when the electrician completed some work on the box of plugs, he forgot to turn it back on.

We sat out and watched the sun set at around 5:30, it’s definitely getting cooler and darker in the evenings now.

Dinner tonight was spinach and ricotta lasagna and some bread. We had some very interesting options for pudding, including a pot of what I think is custard with a very mushy rich tea on top. Strange but tasty.Read more

Heute war also der Big Waves Wettbewerb in Nazare. Und wir mitten drin. Eigentlich habe ich in meinem Bericht von gestern schon alles gesagt. Heute morgen war das Wetter schlechter, viel mehr Menschen an der Klippe, und die Wellen noch mal höher. Nach welchen Kriterien der Wettbewerb stattfindet habe ich auch nicht ganz kapiert. Egal, es war beeindruckend wie die Surfer, immer an der Grenze des Möglichen die Wellen ritten. https://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/446533/po… hier ist eine Zusammenfassung der Veranstaltung zu sehen, da sieht man wirklich was passiert. Das ganze war natürlich eine hochkommerzielle, durchorganisierte Veranstaltung. Wir waren dann auch ziemlich durchgefroren. Am Nachmittag sind wir dann schon weitergefahren. Nun beginnt bereits der Weg zurück. Gerade sitze ich in der Nähe der Grenze nach Spanien im Marco. Morgen geht es weiter nach Toledo. Nach so viel Naturschauspiel wieder mal etwas Kultur.Read more