7th July CASTELO BRANCO

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lesley!

We had a day off; we’ve got up early three days in a row so this morning we had a bit of a lie in.

We bought a barbeque (just a little cheap one); our plan was to have a relaxing day at the campsite, sitting outside reading our kindles, snoozing in the sunshine etc. And then in the evening try to recreate the meal we had on Armona – griddled squid with tomato salad (we couldn’t do the chips).

Huh!!! When we got back to the campsite it was full of little people (children) in brown and yellow outfits having a playscheme and camping in tents (very close to us) – they were quite noisy (they were enjoying themselves). But not nearly as noisy as the boys at the top of the campsite who played their music very loud all day; you couldn’t actually hear the music itself just the base going boom, boom, boom, on and on and on – it was not relaxing at all.

So we stayed in the van and watched this documentary Nick had given us (both he and Glen had been going on about how good it was) called “Water” . Well ...................... I now know that water has memory and can change it’s crystalline structure from really beautiful shapes, like snowflakes (if you’ve said nice things to it) to terrible deformed shapes (if you’ve said nasty things/ignored it). One ‘scientist’ did this experiment where he put rice and water in three separate beakers; beaker one he said “thank you” to, beaker two he said “I hate you” to and beaker three he ignored – after three weeks the rice in beaker one had fermented and was sweet tasting and fragrant, in beaker two it had gone black and in beaker three it had gone mouldy. Another experiment was a ‘doctor’ taking a blob of blood from a woman’s finger; she looked at it under a microscope, her blood was ‘sticky’ the ‘doctor’ could tell that she had problems with her heart and other organs ............. she gave her a drink of water (about ½ a glass), waited 15 minutes and then took more blood – she was healthy this time – how did that work?  When Brett looked it up on the internet it turns out that the bloke who made the film actually sells bottled water ‘with intent’ (H₂Om) – it’s been given positive vibes, and the label has love & gratitude written on it! What a load of crap!