Saturday 14th September
It is 11pm and we have just rolled into our first campsite in Spain, having driven 173 miles from Santander. There are fireworks going off and bands playing, not because Gav and I have arrived I hasten to add, but because it is fiesta time! We have arrived in Tordesillas. When we got here hundreds of people were walking through town with what looked like walking sticks and white dungarees, I assume as part of the festival.When we looked the festival up we learned it is very cruel, see below:
Tordesillas (Spanish pronunciation: [torðeˈsiʎas]) is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain. It is located 25 km southwest of the provincial capital, Valladolid at an elevation of 704 metres. The population was c. 9,000 in 2009.
The town is famous for its festival Toro de la Vega in which a bull is slaughtered by people on horseback and on foot. Animal Rights groups have repeatedly tried to stop this from taking place.
It is 11pm and we have just rolled into our first campsite in Spain, having driven 173 miles from Santander. There are fireworks going off and bands playing, not because Gav and I have arrived I hasten to add, but because it is fiesta time! We have arrived in Tordesillas. When we got here hundreds of people were walking through town with what looked like walking sticks and white dungarees, I assume as part of the festival.When we looked the festival up we learned it is very cruel, see below:
Tordesillas (Spanish pronunciation: [torðeˈsiʎas]) is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain. It is located 25 km southwest of the provincial capital, Valladolid at an elevation of 704 metres. The population was c. 9,000 in 2009.
The town is famous for its festival Toro de la Vega in which a bull is slaughtered by people on horseback and on foot. Animal Rights groups have repeatedly tried to stop this from taking place.
Most of today has been spent on the ferry, it has been a great crossing.We both slept really well last night, the drone of the engines and rocking of the boat helped.We heard a talk about marine life and did you know a blue whale has a heart the size of a small car?!
We landed around 5.30pmand eventually disembarked at 6.30pmish. We got lost when reaching the town where our campsite is and ended up driving through a cornfield with corn 6 foot high on either side of us being sprayed with water! It was very strange and a good job we both still had our sense of humour.
So we pitched our little ground tent on very hard ground and realised that the people we had seen all walking through town weren`t going home after a night out but the party was just starting! There was music, very loud firewworks and lots of fun being had! Every time we dropped off to sleep a massive banger would go off and we would jump up as it actually shook the ground! We did sleep however and at 5am on Sunday morning, the loud music started up again, the song was "work hard play hard" repeated numerous times! It was really strange as the sun did not rise until 8am so at 7.30 it was still pitch black with thousands of stars.I actually thought that we had slept a full 24 hours and it was night again! On the way to the toilet the music got too much to resist so I had a little dance with my head torch flashing to "work hard, play hard ...."!
So we are up and ready for the off.Another 230 or so miles today and we should be there mid afternoon.Remember to work hard and play hard, that might be my anthem now for the trip as it is permanently etched in my brain!
We landed around 5.30pmand eventually disembarked at 6.30pmish. We got lost when reaching the town where our campsite is and ended up driving through a cornfield with corn 6 foot high on either side of us being sprayed with water! It was very strange and a good job we both still had our sense of humour.
So we pitched our little ground tent on very hard ground and realised that the people we had seen all walking through town weren`t going home after a night out but the party was just starting! There was music, very loud firewworks and lots of fun being had! Every time we dropped off to sleep a massive banger would go off and we would jump up as it actually shook the ground! We did sleep however and at 5am on Sunday morning, the loud music started up again, the song was "work hard play hard" repeated numerous times! It was really strange as the sun did not rise until 8am so at 7.30 it was still pitch black with thousands of stars.I actually thought that we had slept a full 24 hours and it was night again! On the way to the toilet the music got too much to resist so I had a little dance with my head torch flashing to "work hard, play hard ...."!
So we are up and ready for the off.Another 230 or so miles today and we should be there mid afternoon.Remember to work hard and play hard, that might be my anthem now for the trip as it is permanently etched in my brain!
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