Today is Sunday May 27. We have been on the road for about a month and are having a blast. Ellie's Spanish has proved invaluable. She makes friends as easily here as at home. I have been drawing and learning about the Spanish people. They are family people that are having fun together in this extremely challenging economic time. Today is a holiday and the camping is full.
Ellie And Chloe are in Barcelona today and I am sitting in the tent pecking away.
Back a few days... after arriving in Cordoba we had dinner in a three-story courtyard (I will write a food post soon) and woke the next morning somewhat early to see the Mezquita Catedral. Mass was underway in the cavernous core and we meandered through in a somewhat of a daze. It was cool, dark and incredibly beautiful.
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| Mezquita |
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| Cordoba |
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| Friends |
In the afternoon it was time to start back to Catalunya. I had penciled in a small village on the map and thought it might be a camping (the European name for campground). It was several hours from Cordoba and after driving up a narrow road we came to a hill town, Penascosa. We were directed to the camping and found a quaint spot seemingly deserted. We did find a Dutch couple on bikes that had pitched their small tent. A sheepherder we had passed on the road wandered in and told us the owner (?) would be in at 8pm. Set up the stove and commenced into a feeding frenzy. When they showed up we rented an affordable bungalow with a sleeping loft.
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| Camping Sierra de Penascosa |
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| Penascosa whitewash |
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| The girls liked it so much they decided to become squatters |
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| A nut for Nutella |
In the morning we hiked up the hill to the village for our mandatory cafe con leche. I like this lifestyle...
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