Monica the Magnficent

Weather: Looks like it's snowing but it's seeds flying everywhere
Puebla de Sanabria

Moving slowly towards the top NW corner of Spain we made a lucky stop at a campsite frequented by Monica the Magnificent.  She is only 1 and a half but has a superbeing's personality.  Which reminds me, the tourist office suggested that we could visit the "Museum of Big Heads" but unfortunately it is only open at weekends.  So we are entertaining ourselves by watching Monica's dashes to the football court chased by mum or dad (who is the spitting image of Otto the school bus driver from The Simpsons).

We were rather worried when we first set up camp because someone had left their dog in their car and it was a very hot day.  It was just lying on the parcel shelf at the back and David gave them 10 minutes grace before assuming his RSPCA persona.  Fortunately before that happened I re-checked and discovered it was a stuffed toy.  But always ready for action David is contemplating the stronger powers (and better car) he would get as a Police Special if he moved to Spain.

Puebla de Sanabria has a lovely old town and the inhabitants seem very keen on their bread and cakes which is always a good sign.  Probably about 25% of the shops are bread shops!  But today we're going to test one of the restaurants, maybe not choosing the local speciality of pulpo.  And then a little wonder round to check out the different places the locals find to hang their washing.  Ingenious.

Then a nice long bike ride to the local lake tomorrow to burn off some of those calories.  But I'm going to make sure this one is one proper roads.  Some of the time on our bike ride yesterday I thought we might have been following contour lines on the map rather than a proper route.  There were a few sniffing the mattress moments.  But we did finally emerge at a little village with a church:always a good place for lunch, although the swifts that had their nests under the ledge weren't happy about us being there.