Redondela

We’ve arrived at tonight’s venue, A Casa da Herba which I’d booked directly. Unfortunately the bathroom is shared which isn’t ideal for someone padding off to the toilet twice a night. But the room is light, the shower is excellent and I can always buy a large necked bottle 😊.

Today was sunny, warm and got hotter as the day wore on. I had one of my (thankfully) rare schizoid migraines which finally disappeared mid afternoon. It started a little before 8 o’clock, lots of threads running simultaneously alongside a main thread which gradually grew stronger as the morning drew on displacing the others completely by 3 o’clock. Normality restored. My least enjoyable migraine experience type but thankfully over within a few hours.

There’s a lovely stone bridge over a small stream which has been carrying traffic for a very long time given the depths of the indentations.

I remember the next photograph from last time we were here. I’m still unsure what exactly it represents but it’s interesting nevertheless.

Here’s the leftmost image in close up – unfortunately I’m still none the wiser.

The vines are beginning to bear fruit, by September these will be ready for harvesting.

We stopped a couple of times for water and a bocadillo and then just before lunch, a quick banana and satsuma

the remains of which I very surreptitiously buried deep in the vegetation behind Dorothy.

There are some amazing high stone walls covered in ancient vegetation and astonishingly a wall of tyres.

Also covered in vegetation. From the state of them I would guess they must be many decades old. I’ve seen tyres filled with soil and used in building earthships but never walls in this fashion. Very impressive.