Friday 13 September

Quiet day today. I wasn’t in a hurry to get up and neither was Lottie.

The weather forecast turned out to be wrong and we had rain this morning.

After lunch we cycled to a nearby village, I’d like to say it was very pretty and interesting but it wasn’t. It was a very rural Spanish village, square bare architecture, no-one around, one shop – a Spar. Spar seems to have the monopoly around here. I popped in and it sold absolutely everything you could possibly need. The road to the village had started off with beautiful tarmac, then the tarmac suddenly ended and the dusty road was potholed, then after about half a mile, we had tarmac again.

We found a canal to cycle along for the way back, very quiet and lovely, through the rice fields again. Birds all around us, all shapes and sizes.

Back at the campsite we had a long chat with the neighbours who come from Dagenham, he’s a bit of a ‘geezer’ in a vocal way. They’re a lovely couple – even if they are ‘leavers’ and archetypal leavers at that. Lots of talk about immigration/ Muslims etc. But we managed to have a civilised conversation about the whole thing. I was very restrained 😄