13th May BARRAGEM DE POVOA - CASTELO BRANCO

So much for my brilliant idea of getting stuff done early before the day heated up, it was baking hot by 8.00 a.m. this morning! Of course as the van had been in the shade last night it was now in direct sunlight and the temperature was rising rapidly – we moved further along the road under some huge Acer trees, obviously under the flight path the local storks, every so often there would be the ‘knocking’ call of the incoming parent bird.

If you look carefully between the parent stork's legs you can see two baby storks (just)

William phone this morning with dire warnings about the impending collapse of the euro; typical as soon as we change our money into euros there’s a crisis , at least we got a good exchange rate on Friday,  we worked out that we were better off by £2000 by exchanging now rather than when we first arrived (and it was £500 better than exchanging on Thursday – we don’t want to check the exchange rate anymore or look at farms for sale!!!!).

As it was too hot at the barragem we came back to the campsite after lunch – at least here we can have copious cold showers! Brett spent the afternoon on his kindle looking at cars for sale nearby and checking on the state of the Euro-zone  – it was very slow.