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This morning we had a very rude awaking by a lorry parked next to us in the car park in Mafra at 5am. Once the lorry had warmed up, got his air brakes running and left the binmen turned up and made a hell of a noise and from that moment on the car park turned into Piccadilly Circus. It was a nightmare so as we were up anyway, we sorted Wanda out. Had a few cups of coffee while we waited for the traffic to ease up and left Mafra at 9am.
Our plan initially was to dump the toilet and grey water at Mafra but the dump station was full of vans so we just took it with us and hoped we’d find somewhere on route to dump it all off.
We had a 260 mile journey today to move area completely and head to the north of Portugal, at first we were going to go straight to the waterfalls and hot springs but on route judging the time we decided that it would be better to head straight to a ghost town we had seen on a YouTube video because we could sleep there.
On route we found an intermarchè and dumped all our waste and even managed to fill up the fresh water all free of charge. Then we continued the next 160 miles through the wind and rain to the ghost town.
When we arrived we realised we were a little out of depth and comfort zone here. We were deep in the woods, the buildings were completely derelict and there was an eerie feeling about the whole place.
We parked Wanda next to one of the buildings and started to explore.
One building was definitely an old school because it still had the blackboard, there were 2 houses, both identical but one had a collapsed roof while the other was intact complete with basement and an upstairs and then there were several other buildings and there use is anyones guess.
We settled back into Wanda, made dinner turned the tv on and the fire and then it got very dark, very quickly and the owls came out just to make the place even creepier.
At 9:30, we were ready for bed and just as we turned the tv off so it was silent other birds started making loud screeching sounds which were truly terrifying. We both knew it was wildlife but the mind does like to play tricks on you and it was only the night before I was watching the walking dead.
Sleeping here was definitely going to be interesting, and cold.Read more