After breakfast today, it was time to strip the beds and collect the laundry to be washed.
Then we went to the laundrette 850 meters away.
The onward journey today was very varied.
Along the coast between the dunes.
Through small, sleepy villages.
Through green pine forests. On normal, pleasant roads.
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
In Portugal, they have started to extract resin from the pine trees. The pine resin is then purified and processed further: To turpentine and rosin, two highly sought-after materials that are used in paint production, but also for cosmetics, medicines, car tires and chewing gum. Hardly any other raw material is as versatile as pine resin.
They also assume that there will be fewer forest fires as a result. As the forest is better cared for due to the resin extraction.
We arrived at this official campsite in the afternoon.
There is a charge. 6€ per night without electricity and 9€ with electricity. There are also the usual supply and disposal stations on the site. There are also cold (free) and hot showers (€1) and toilets. The sanitary facilities are supposedly closed between 8pm and 6am.
It is said to be one of the most beautiful places in Portugal Centro. Now the next 35 hours of bad weather are on the cards. We hope that the weather won’t be too bad so that we can see this beautiful place for ourselves.
We chose a spot quite far back. Next to this great old Niesmann-Bischoff motorhome. It belongs to a nice gentleman with two dogs. They didn’t even let us get out, were happy, wanted to be stroked and didn’t want to leave us alone. The owner came up to us straight away and said that it was absolutely not normal for them to approach people like that and that we must have something about us that they must really like 😉
On the other side of us was a woman and her friend. We already had contact with this woman on the penultimate pitch. She had problems with her fridge and knocked on our door in the hope that we would have the tools she needed with such an old vehicle. Of course we were able to help out. There is also a motorhome from Böblingen here, which was also on this penultimate pitch.
This night was short. Due to the wind that came from the side during the night, we were once again really buffeted and sleeping was out of the question.
Our first attempt to see the sea today ended without a view and with soaking wet clothes.
On our second attempt, we were rewarded with a phenomenal view.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t come across as beautiful and fantastic in the pictures and video as it really is. The meter-long and meter-high waves are incredibly beautiful.
For us, this is the most beautiful view of the Atlantic so far
The 5 km long and 1.8 km wide Laguna de Óbidos is a paradise for kitesurfers.
There are a lot of fishermen here who have been seen again and again in the last few days scooping all the water out of their boats.There are a lot of fishermen here who have been seen again and again in the last few days scooping all the water out of their boats.
We also had to contend with the water. The rain came down horizontally, something we’ve never experienced before. And the storm pushed water in through the windows and doors.
A lot of water came down from the sky.
The day is slowly coming to an end!
