It's my mum’s birthday today. We left the campsite but decided not to go to Granada as planned –we’d thought of visiting the Alhambra Palace - but to drive on towards Portugal. We stopped at a Carrefour on the way and had a tapas lunch and did some provisions shopping, then got to the next campsite early afternoon. This is La Aldea, which is off the main road for some miles down into the Donana National Park near Seville. The showers are rubbish - nowhere to put your dry clothes and things whilst you shower and nowhere to put your shampoo etc. either. I hate these sorts of showers but we'll have to use them tomorrow as we didn't shower this morning.
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| Camping La Aldea |
I tried all morning to phone my mum for her birthday, but Paul's Geosim card isn't working - what a waste of time that's been. I used my Orange mobile and got through with no problems at about 5:30 pm.
It's very hot today so I'm indoors in the shade, and wearing some cheap shorts we bought in Carrefour. They're okay for wearing around the site, but I wouldn't go out anywhere in them! Apart from when I exercise, this is the first time I've ever worn shorts - if you saw my legs you'd know why! We probably won't have much for dinner today, then we’ll play Mario Kart and go to bed. I do miss not having a TV to watch, and wonder what's happening on all the programmes I used to like. The problem is that this far south we can’t get UK television channels because the dish we have is too small to get a good signal. We could watch other free European English language channels, but they're all rubbish unless you like the American serials and things, or of course Porn channels. No thanks! I think it's naughty that the UK satellite TV companies restrict UK channels to UK areas only. It's to stop the rest of Europe getting our TV for free. So it was a good idea of mine to bring the Wii as it gives us something to do.
We've seen some strange sights on our travels. The other day we saw what looked like a low star shining really brightly in a field at the side of the highway. At first we thought it was something like the towers of a distant bridge with the sun reflecting off the wires, but it really did look like the Christmas star or something. We later found out that it was a large electricity generator that uses solar mirrors to reflect the sun into the centre of a tower, which then creates power to drive a generator to supply electricity to the surrounding district - very weird.
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| Strange "Star" on the top of a tower |
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| Nesting Storks |
Further along the highway, we saw loads of storks nesting in the overhead gantries and pylons. Apparently there aren’t many tall trees around so the storks nest in whatever other high structures they can find.
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