We didn’t go to the quinta today as we needed to do chores and buy some things in preparation for moving to our new home. We spent the morning doing our washing, including bedding and towels – it takes a long time when it’s done by hand, especially the wringing out – I wish we had an old fashioned mangle.
We managed to buy some oil lamps, and a couple of solar lights (the ones you stick in the garden); I’m getting a little bit worried about how dark it’s going to be out at the farm at night, we’re about a mile out of the village and 500 metres from the nearest house with electricity – proper wild camping.
We bought two large clay pots for the ‘fridge’; we might have to resort to buying a gas fridge if this doesn’t work (if we can find one).
We saw a lovely big gazebo, with mosquito nets, which we might buy for our outside kitchen and we’re still looking at pools – the snake has rather put us off the ‘plunge pool’!
Half the shops we wanted to go to were closed, because it was Saturday; we still haven’t got used to shopping times in Portugal, some shops shut for lunch/siesta (a couple of hours) while some are open every day 10a.m. – 8p.m. I don’t think there can be restricted Sunday opening here.
We went into the town centre at 1.30ish, it was completely dead, a few shops (mainly Chinese) were open but there were no customers walking the streets and there were masses of car parking spaces – not like Swansea on a Saturday lunchtime! Castelo Branco is the capital city for this region.
We had a barbeque for the third evening running; tonight we had chargrilled squid, drizzled with olive oil and finely chopped garlic, served with a mixed green salad, for pudding we had chocolate with bits of dime bar crumble in it, straight out of the freezer.
And tomorrow we move!
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