Sunday 4th May 2025.
There is much confusion to the mind in Homer this evening and signs of withdrawal symptoms as we have spent a whole day without seeing/visiting a historical or religious building. No castles, no cathedrals, no grand churches, monasteries, convents etc not even a walk around a historic town.
Just a drive on a twisty turny road that followed a large river as we rose higher and higher into a mountainous area with hillsides clad in trees , heather and other wild flowers until we arrived at tonight’s free stopover.
To be fair the description about the park up did say it was within walking distance of Roman ruins and thermal springs that fed open air baths the Romans used.
We were of course not going to be able to stay here and not visit these items of interest but we didn’t take into account “nature”
The footpath running alongside the river to the site of interest was well under water and was too deep to wade through, an English couple staying here took a walk along the main road to get around the flooded footpath only to find everything at the historical site under water.
We elected to have a walk down river instead only to find after 100m a similar situation.
Our walk was somewhat shortened and as during the afternoon it rained for at least 4 hours I would suspect that tomorrow there will be even less footpath above water.
This morning we parted company with our travel buddies Alison and Peter, they have a week longer than us to travel so they were heading NW into Spain whilst we headed East out of Portugal slowly travelling towards Santander.
So yes tonight we are back in Spain.
taraabit 