Marketing in Montagut

Montagut
Weather: Yesterday :-(  Today more :-|

What to do in Camping Montagut?  Well we didn't fancy canyoning but we needed to top up supplies so we decided to have a walk to market.  There was a local one Sat and another Sun.

So we checked the signposts and the map at the bridge and took careful photos for when we got lost.  Although we are getting better.  These walks were marked with yellow stripes on rocks and trees so we have an arrangement that if we haven't seen a stripe for 5 mins we go back to the last one and look again.  Seems to be working for now.

Saturday's market was at St Jaume de Lleirca.  Very nice walk but maybe 1.5 hrs each way was a bit too much energy to expend on a market of one man and his van!  Still, we loaded David's rucksack with fruit, had a very shivery picnic in the playground and got back to spend the afternoon hunkered down in the van watching the weather getting worse and worse.

That wasn't a blue sky through the skylight, it was black!  Needed 3 gin and tonics and a bit of good old Saturday night telly and an emergency dash to campshop for chocolate bar to lift the depression.  Spain is meant to be sunny isn't it?  I have all my creams and lotions etc packed carefully in thermal bags so they wouldn't melt in the sun, what a waste of time, and I have told Caroline not to bring any sun cream as we have tons still!! 

Anyway, today dawned bright and sunny.

 So off we set to market in Tortella, and we were going to treat oursleves to lunch at the camp restaurant so David didn't even take his rucksack.
Spirits high this morning, although as the pics show the clouds did appear.

Tortella was a lot buzzier than St Jaume with 2 market stalls but also 3 or 4 village shops were open and lots of people around coming out of church and have their pre-lunch drinks.

Shorter walk and 2 stalls - double bubble.

Oh and no rain today - triple bounce!