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Friday 11 May 2012

4th May BRAGANCA - TORRE DE MONCORVO

It rained all night.
Trees 'dripping' with lichen!

We had a shortish drive to an aire today at Torre de Moncorvo; it looked as if Sat Nav thought it would only take us 20 minutes until we realised that she had put her clock back an hour when we crossed the border (and we hadn’t realised to).
The aire is right at the top of the village overlooking the surrounding countryside, with fabulous far reaching views of olive groves and terraces. It does feel rather exposed when the wind blows!
View from aire
As we needed food for dinner we were looking out for a shop, as we drove, but didn’t find one until we entered the village (the local Supermercado), of course it was shut for siesta time (which is different timing in Portugal to Spain). When it did open it was absolutely rubbish; all the cold counters were empty there was no cheese, milk, meat, or bread and the only vegetables were a couple of onions, a lettuce and some potatoes. So dinner was pancakes with lemon juice and sugar, chocolate chip cookies (Brett) and wine (me)!

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