Exploring the area

I have to say this is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to, it is as if the government has told its citizens the more straight your grapevines and the more varied your crops as long as they are artistic, we will pay you to plant them.The houses are amazing, there are castles round every corner, chateaux everywhere and empty buildings galore, makes us want to visit the estate agent to check out the prices though the cost of living is oppressive petrol is higher priced than the UK, only the alcohol is cheap, hmmm may have to re think that one.Today we went on a mystery tour, just got in the car and drove. It was cooler today so we felt a bit more adventurous and toured about a bit looking for an elusive castle that Sue remembered from years before. After driving for 40 minutes or so, Sue said ‘ I think that’s it,’ we looked across the valley and there it was, beautiful, surrounded with cypress trees at the very top of the hill. We got there in 15 minutes or so and got some pics then went looking for food.Some time later we found a family run pizzeria in a small village and decided to give it a go. On the one side they served cold meats and hams that looked about 100 years old and on the other side the pizzeria, only they weren’t serving pizza they had a short daytime menu which we chose from Clive and Sue chose Panzanella which was cold, made with day old bread and vegetables, it was amazing. Roberto chose spaghetti with ragu and mine was with a tomato sauce, bloody lovely. It all came with Italian bread and parmesan cheese, balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Yummy. Everyone was happy and of course a litre of wine to accompany it. The bill came 8.75 euro each, result.We thought we would drive around a bit more but then it started raining, my God never seen anything like it, we though best get back to the tents, Clive had given ours a bit of a reinforce in the morning so we were happy but flipping heck when we got inside we thought we were going to take off, there were 2 storms going on at the same time the thunder and lightening were giving all this and all that not realising we are Welsh and thought ‘Is that that the best you can do’?This is on the outside filmed from inside

It didn’t look like the rain was going to stop so Clive cooked some vegan kofte and it was bloody lovely too. It looks like I need to have accidents to have this kind of service. Suddenly the the rain decided to stop for 10 minutes enough for Clive to run around, do the dishes and fill the tent with alcohol and now all he needs to do is give me an all over body massage being very gentle on my arm but a bit tougher on my feet. I have promised to reciprocate this in the future but I am hoping he will forget, bugger as I speak he making a note on his diary.Some more pics from today sorry not having any great success with uploading pics may have to put on facebook