We did indeed enjoy a light meal served by Alejandra and Maria last evening. We had grown to like the family enormously and they seemed to be interested in us too.
After a fond farewell, we travelled quickly over rolling plains NE towards Salamanca. More pasture lands characteristically dotted with single trees - mostly oaks. Regardless of or perhaps despite previous comment about the lack of visible pigs, we eventually saw a small herd of black ones which were very much alive! After replenishment of supplies at a Leclerc where the lively lady who served us our coffees gave us her enthusiastic guidance about getting to see a bullfight, we found Regia campsite easily. Just 4 km from the city centre and adjacent to a four star hotel, it was spot on to meet our requirements. Free wifi available too!
About 50m away from where we parked EMU, M1 noticed some lads with good road bikes. They turned out to be four boys from Winchester College on a charity bike ride from Bilbao to Faro, about 850 miles in all. Delightful lads with a support driver and vehicle, they had just finished day 4 covering about 70 miles a day at 15 mph average. Their charity, DEBRA, for skin diseases, will gain a donation from M1 - and one of them will wear his 'Marmite - Hate Jams' cycling shirt which went down very well - 'Cool!' was the word.
Otherwise, it was too hot to contemplate any exercise or sightseeing so we stayed put and used our BBQ set for the first time - with mixed success. We may rethink this one. It stayed pretty windy too so our precaution inn turning the van round to protect the awning was well worthwhile.
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