Further exploration

We started the day by setting up the lap top on the ironing board in the roof top bedroom. Have pushed the two single beds together and made space near the window where the cable from James and Lisa’s house reaches into this one. We can work off line which is what I am doing now and then plug into the internet via the cable and send email messages or upload this addition to the blog.




Brian has also managed to install Skype, so will try ringing Therese and Janiece soon.



I did some Spanish study, then we went to the market. Then up to town to buy bread and to have a coffee at the local bakery, then back home for lunch. Then a 6 km walk to the dam through the Gorge in afternoon. It was very pleasant mostly on the river bank – so an ‘along’ walk which I enjoy more than the up and down ones.. We stopped for drink at a nice bar/restaurant which is also a hotel with cave rooms and thermal pools and then returned on the same route in the gorge, but came into town at the top end. We found the square known as the four esquinas (four corners) and the very pleasant small supermarket where I bought some shower gel called Heno de pravia which I remembered Sofia used when we were in Cadiz.



When we got back from the walk we headed up to the roof top patio with the gin and tonics and then Brian went into the ‘computer room’ to play with the photos he took in the Gorge. I retreated further up to the top terrace to get the last of the sun, only to come down and find that he had locked me out! I knocked and knocked, but couldn’t make him hear. I started around 7.30 pm but by 8.15 had not managed to get his attention. I hoped that the smells coming up from the kitchen mean’t that he was in there so in a up to date version of the legend of Rapunzel, I undid some of the clothes line, and tied my book to the end and dangled it in front of the kitchen window, three floors below! Eventually he came out and wanted to know what I was doing! The good news is that we have a good chance of being cast in a remake of “As Time goes By”.



Here are a some shots of the escarpent that we took on today's walk:-