Lets go birding now

Weather: heavy spring rain leading to burst of blossoms everywhere

The Road to Amarillo

Well, Monfrague National Park near Plasencia in Extremadura actually.  Stunning park where we did what had to be one of my top 5 all time favourite walks.  The area is covered in beautiful wild flowers with the scent of lavender in the air as you brush past the bushes along the trails and there is a steady buzzing of bees and other insects with the bird calls in the background.  Are you there yet?  According to our very helpful neighbour at the last campsite (John Taylor of XXL sat dish fame) it is apparently a very famous bird watching area and at the end of the walk we did (so well marked even we didn’t get lost) there was a cliff where vultures nested.  We’ve never seen such enormous birds, they were like deadly silent stealth bombers, pretty scary.

Spot the birdies

For Mr W it is all about the destination, not about the journey

Robin - this is for Margaret, looked like an iris ?!

We had to drive to the park so the idea was to stock up on lots of lovely food before we got back.  We’ve both lost weight and unfortunately as you get older your skin doesn’t shrink to fit so we need to fill out those wrinkles.  Convinced?  No? well I don’t care we just wanted cake.  Went past an Aldi and a Lidl but turned our noses up at them and ended up at a “Dia Extra”.  Should have stuck to Aldi.  Felt very deflated and even moire wrinkly until we spotted a Carrefour sign – it was like manna from heaven.  Cake, cheddar cheese (being French it didn’t come under “cheeses of the world” of course), fresh fish, cling film and more of the delicious creamy avocados you get here.   What more could a wrinkly ask for?  The cling film is just to keep the cake fresh til the next snackette!