Sercotel Rio Badajoz

... br>Drink- Sagres beer, or homemade wine

In a Word
¨Shut up Louie¨ Becky yelling at the X-Factor host

Trademarks
Crazy cats, quirky dogs, delicious jams and chutney, endless starry nights, beautiful sunrises

Surprises
Stone wall building can be satisfying

Only a few hosts can claim to rise to the level of "underground tourism", Becky and Martin do so in style. With so much potential and positive energy, there´s never been a better time to visit.

... of saying that "WWOOFing is underground tourism". He did his best to show me the places the average tourist never sees. Martin and Becky have accomplished exactly this. They have taken time out of their days to show us around small towns in Portugal and Spain, they´ve taken us to the most obscure little folk festival, and they´ve introduced us to their friends and neighbors in their community. To me this is what travel is all about.

... and Portugal remind me of parts of Africa. An already limited menu can just be a list of dishes currently unavailable. While two servers rushed around an all but empty dinning room we waited. Some time later our food arrived. Poor Martin, a vegetarian, was limited to one menu option: fries with spicy ketchup. They don´t exactly understand the concept of vegetarianism in these parts, we´re in the land of the pig. I chuckled to myself as I picked away at his fries ...

... these all but forgotten places. If it weren´t for WWOOF, I would never see a place like this, I suppose that´s what I´m really after.

I took the opportunity of being off the farm to fill up on meat. I´m doing fine on the vegetarian diet, but I´m still keen to chow down on some good pig when the I get a chance. Badajoz didn´t disappoint with a whole variety of tapas to choose from. I filled up the meat tank on delicious cured hams and exciting squid dishes. Happy Birthday to me!

I´ve settled into a nice routine here with Becky and Martin. When I arrived the first order of business was a tour of the place I´ll be calling home for the next two weeks.

I´m always excited to see the kitchen, as I think it can really say a lot about a person. My first exciting discover lay in the bookshelf: cookbooks, cool cookbooks, cookbooks I want to own. Jars of preserves are tucked away into corners, and stacked in the cupboards. The place is overflowing with ...

... every door that we could find trying to get into the church to see the Miracle and we were not going to leave until we got in. We were denied by the sisters but then went back to them and begged again telling them that we needed to see it and we could not wait till the morning because our train was leaving at 10 pm that night. Eventually a little French women told us she ...

... y vimos a Coppini & Maga y a Tachenko pero después de lo que habíamos visto, nos supo a poco. Y así amaneció el domingo, con nosotros durmiendo plácidamente. Con el regusto de un gran Contempopranea, con el sabor a victoria por haber encontrado una casa y un casero tan buenos, con la tranquilidad de estar disfrutando de nuestras merecidas vacaciones y con la esperanza de qué este año no sea el último y que el año que viene volvamos a estar por aquí... ¡Cruzamos los dedos!

... caíamos del sueño.... ¡¡¡vaya trío de sopazas!!! Por suerte escuchamos unos cuantos buenos conciertos: Deneuve tenía muy buena pinta, Emma Pollock (Ema Pollón para los amigos) nos gustó a todos pero especialmente a Jaione; y Lori Meyers nos volvió a sorprender con otro gran concierto... y volvimos a decir: Tenemos que escuhar más de este grupo. Eso sí, aunque suene genial decir que has venido a ver a Teenage Fanclub porque son míticos, hemos de reconocer que a ninguno nos gust ...

... canción oficial para entender esto). El de vuelta nos sirve para digerir todas las experiencias y reirnos con las anécdotas más divertidas. Este año hemos vuelto a ir por Salamanca. Resulta que probamos el año pasado a ir por allí y es mucho más cómodo porque suele coincidir con la operación salida y nos ahorramos la N-I y pasar por Madrid. Además, íbamos convencidos de que este año iba a estar terminada la autovía entre Salamanca y Cáceres... pero se ve que han ...

... 32 livres sur ton dos (ok juste 20)...il y avait des journees plus faciles que ca au bureau!

*Parler portuguais (en melangeant l espanol, l anglais et le francais) et comprendre ce qu ils nous disent en ne parlant pas vraiment la langue et en ne la comprenant pas vraiment non plus. Ca vient d ou cette langue? De l arabe???
a reserve une chambre au telephone en portuguais...et avoir, a notre arrivee, ce qu on croyais ...