Los Arces de Isla
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Animal care AKA cleaning
... much older than me aside from the 3 teenagers).
Tomorrow I plan to visit a nearby town called Tavira and it´s island. I have done pretty much no sight-seeing so I´ll be ready to appreciate beautiful things when I get going again. I have another week of working here and then I´m up and away to who knows where! From then I´ll have 3 weeks til christmas time in France with my relatives.
Krazee Unicorn is temporarily Captain of the bunnies Xoxo ...
Day 16: Countryside
Today I went to a rural area of Italy. It was very calm and quiet here. The people were really nice and gave us some of their food so that we could eat there with them. Their houses were built of pure bricks making them very stable and warm for those cold fronts that come in the winter.
I did nothing else because I wanted to take a break. I had enough relaxation for the day outside enjoying the great wind and beautiful sun. ...
Tavira days
... in the area but it was extremely hot and apathy set in. We did not even manage to go to the almost effortless ferry across to Ilha de Tavira. We are sure that we will return when the heat is less intense as we both liked in and easyjet are now flying to Faro (up the coast) from our home town of Southend.
Regretfully we took the bus back to Spain going straight through to Seville in 3 1/2 hours.
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Seaside chill holiday
... which our teenagers found invaluable. The days soon fell into a very pleasant routine whereby we rose quite late read and sat by the pool swimming as the heat of the day built then hiding in the shade or inside the apartment. A couple of afternoons we headed for the beach about 5pm and chilled in the evening sunlight. Like many Spanish beaches there is no shade at the beach and so the locals take shades with them but we were ...
Mooring up another river
From our anchorage up the River Guadiana we left for an anchorage at Rio de las Piedras. In the Almanac it looked as though the river entry was behind sand dunes. As we approached the safe water mark according to our plotter we could not find it. We were nearly ashore (or so it seemed) when we finally spotted the channel markers. We dropped the sails and turned towards the outer mark being tossed from side to side by the ...