14 November ’05, Monday.
Yuck, it’s still raining and it just doesn’t seem to want to give it up. Yesterday was the same as it was today…thunder, lightning, rain, and more rain. Heck, I checked the weather report over and over again prior to this weekend, and it showed that we had some good sunny days coming….WHEN ??? I am really getting discouraged, because I was looking forward to Spain being all we had heard and read…a great winter vacation area…not hot, but sunny and warm. Sunday mornings, the campground restaurant has a breakfast special that just about everyone goes to. We were told about it by one of our neighbors, “it is a really good British breakfast, and it is cheap”. I wasn’t sure what a “British breakfast” was, so I ask…juice, 4 strips of good British bacon, 2 eggs, a chunk of blue cheese, bread, and coffee for $3.50. Well, it sounded like it was just what we were looking for. When we walked through the door, there were 3 different plates of food set up to show what our choices were. We both chose the bacon and egg dish. Our coffee turned out to be a coffee latte, and the juice was fresh squeezed. There was even refills on both… What a great start. Then the main dish arrived. It looked exactly like the dish we saw at the front door, but as we didn’t study it too closely, we didn’t notice that the eggs were not quite done and the bacon was thick, but 99% fat. We could hardly eat any of it, but the juice and coffee were sure good… The Brits and most of the others found the bacon just to their liking…lots of fat protein I guess. After sitting in the van most of the day with the weather doing it’s thing, we had one of the other campers come by and invite us over to their “canopy” for a stew dinner…”just bring your own chairs, glasses for drinks, and if you want, you can bring that brandy too…” (we had just fixed a small glass before he arrived). We accepted their invitation, and of course brought our brandy. We had a great dinner and wonderful conversation with them and another couple that they had invited as well. We have 2 more days here in this campground, so lets hope that one of them will be a dry one, we would like to put the tent away dry more than anything else.
Yuck, it’s still raining and it just doesn’t seem to want to give it up. Yesterday was the same as it was today…thunder, lightning, rain, and more rain. Heck, I checked the weather report over and over again prior to this weekend, and it showed that we had some good sunny days coming….WHEN ??? I am really getting discouraged, because I was looking forward to Spain being all we had heard and read…a great winter vacation area…not hot, but sunny and warm. Sunday mornings, the campground restaurant has a breakfast special that just about everyone goes to. We were told about it by one of our neighbors, “it is a really good British breakfast, and it is cheap”. I wasn’t sure what a “British breakfast” was, so I ask…juice, 4 strips of good British bacon, 2 eggs, a chunk of blue cheese, bread, and coffee for $3.50. Well, it sounded like it was just what we were looking for. When we walked through the door, there were 3 different plates of food set up to show what our choices were. We both chose the bacon and egg dish. Our coffee turned out to be a coffee latte, and the juice was fresh squeezed. There was even refills on both… What a great start. Then the main dish arrived. It looked exactly like the dish we saw at the front door, but as we didn’t study it too closely, we didn’t notice that the eggs were not quite done and the bacon was thick, but 99% fat. We could hardly eat any of it, but the juice and coffee were sure good… The Brits and most of the others found the bacon just to their liking…lots of fat protein I guess. After sitting in the van most of the day with the weather doing it’s thing, we had one of the other campers come by and invite us over to their “canopy” for a stew dinner…”just bring your own chairs, glasses for drinks, and if you want, you can bring that brandy too…” (we had just fixed a small glass before he arrived). We accepted their invitation, and of course brought our brandy. We had a great dinner and wonderful conversation with them and another couple that they had invited as well. We have 2 more days here in this campground, so lets hope that one of them will be a dry one, we would like to put the tent away dry more than anything else.