Today we continued our relentless march across the La Mancha plains. We hope to finally cross the plains on the 1st of June, so we still have a few days left! Two events to highlight today. The first and most important is that it is our daughter Celine's Birthday. She has grown into a beautiful woman and now has her own family. Her husband Alan, a pilot for British Airways and a beautiful baby son Austin, coming up to 7 months. Happy Birthday, darling!
The second event was that today, in the middle of the vast arid plain that is LA Mancha we came across the bizarre sight of a very large pine forest, about 3 Kms deep, which we traversed and around 5 Kms wide. It afforded us the best shade of the day. After going past a couple of beautiful fincas, the path continued its own hostile self with stoney paths, no shade whatsoever and temperatures into the high twenties!
Just after midday we found our "Polideportivo" as usual situated on the outskirts of the town some 2 Kms away! We have the exclusive use of one of the dressing rooms, complete with showers and toilets etc. Mattresses on the floor, no pillows and no blankets. The place could do with a clean as well! Unfortunately it is the only place in town where we can bed down for the night. I continue to dream of a nice hotel in Toledo. Oh well, time to wash today's clothes, hang them up to dry and hope they will be dry by morning. Today, part of the way I carried a shirt on the back of my rucksack, which was still damp from the nights wash. It dried completely in no time at all! What an exciting life we are leading!
Happy birthday to your daughter :) I think you need to start ending all your blog posts with the sentence "and at the end there was wine" đđđ
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