The sun was out so was the tide, revealing underlying rocks, could be a bit dodgy if swimming on top of them.
Glorious day and we are sorry to be leaving, said goodbye to John and headed East to site they recommended at Cobreces just 7km back. We quickly came to the site and down the narrow farm lane to large gravel parking area. The farm had a few of most things, cows, pigs, goats, geese along with the smells that go with it, but not unpleasant and lovely green fields with twin towers church and pale blue painted monestry in the little village. The Monestry is a stop for the peligrinos, pilgrims walking the Camino.
Met Chris and Bernice, very nice Irish couple that now live in Bristol, sold their house in June and are now full timing in a 8.5m long, 5 ton motorhome with 2 large solar panels so they never need hook up apart from their 2 electric bikes haha or when he wants to use his full size computer. He also has a printer and offered to print off our forms for us.
Chris was very helpful, said we need to buy a Toll card at the Portuguese border in case we get on the motorway , as no toll booths and can't pay any other way. There is a €1000 fine without a card. Any unused money is refunded at post office before you leave the country.
He also said he had met another kiwi who told him that if you have driven your moho in Italy, when you import it to NZ the MAF dept fumigate it at a cost of $1500 and they inject all soft furnishings with chemicals that are so dangerous you wouldn't want to use it for 6 weeks. Apparently MAF in NZ have identified a bug in produce from Italy and have now banned imports. I googled it but nothing came up, so emailed the import company to see if they know anything about this recent development.
Chris also is a retired mechanic and mot officer knew lots about vehicles and trucks and offered to look at our solar panel control board, he said it was fine just very small capacity, combined with our low travel miles and infrequent Ehu had drained the leisure batteries and after couple days on electric we should be fine again.....whewww.
Stood in the sun chatting for ages, they went off on a bike ride and at 4pm we walked to the Monestry where we were told they sell bread and cheese that they make for the peligrinos. However when we asked he said only for the peligrinos and we could buy it at the kiosk.
Which we did along with a few other bits and 2 x 1 litre bottles of beer for €1.90 each. As we were walking back we passed Louisa the manager who saw our shopping and gave a big smile and thumbs up, we showed her the local cheese and she complimented Tony on his pronunciation of cereceza (beer) . Lovely lady doing a great job with this new site.
Went over to see if Chris had got the emails with the forms on, they were just having a late lunch, Tony brought over the bread and local cheese and shared a late bite while Chris printed off our forms, very helpful and we enjoyed a great few house of chat and laughter. They had spent 3 Weeks whistle stop tour of NZ about 5 years ago and now they are retired would love to go back for longer, so gave them our card and email if ever they get back it would be lovely to see them. Chris also tried to help me with storage on my tablet to move some onto my sd card to free up space, but I don't seem to have that facility, have to do it through a computer. Left them at 7.30pm great afternoon, lite bite for tea.
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