It rained and rained in the night. Today we had another long boring journey across the plains of Spain in the rain – 125 miles, and then we were back in Portugal; and back on windy country roads with goats and cattle in the fields alongside, run down houses with wood smoke coming out of their chimneys (I love that smell) and around a bend in the road an old lady, by herself, with a stick and umbrella herding her half dozen cows along the road to be milked (I could tell that by the size of their udders). This scene made our day, this is the village life we want when we final settle (in Portugal?).
Photo taken through the windscreen of the van (and through rain)
We had to book into a campsite as there are no aires in this area. Braganca is in a National Park (Parque Natural de Montezinho) in Northern Portugal; in the summer it will be extremely picturesque, at the moment it’s pretty but very damp and squelchy, the trees are absolutely dripping with lichen (which to me is a sign of perpetual dampness!).
We paid 2€ for internet access (which, considering we’d paid for it, was very slow and kept disconnecting) I spent hours uploading the last thirteen posts of my blog (phew!).
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