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Another island trip today. Illa de Arousa (Galician way of saying Isla) a gorgeous island with pretty little coves and freezing water like the whole of the Atlantic coast of Spain and Portugal. Played some beach tennis to get warm enough to face a dip in the water. None of the beach showers worked so we finally got to use the solar shower we´ve been lugging around with us for the last three weeks, basically a black bag with a small hose and minute shower head on the end. It only holds 20 litres so you have to do one of those ship showers and keep switching the thing off to lather up. A massive pain but you kind of feel like you´re clean at the end of it.
We followed this with a walk around the island´s coastal path. The info board sold it as a 2 and a half hour excursion but it took us 45 mins and I don´t think that´s cause we´re particularly fit, I think they must base it on a family of 7 with Granny and Grandpa in tow and three kids who need to stop to wee every five minutes and remove stones from their shoes.
Anyhoo, we did pass the nudist colony of the island and managed to take in lots of interesting sights, lamentably it´s never quite the ones one might wish to see. The two men who were lying in a quiet bay together made Dan quicken his pace and we made it round the coast in record time.
That night we set up close to the beach and ate some local sardines, cleaned by Dan, (can´t bear the hooha that surrounds the eating of any type of fish that isn´t bought in a supermarket, my non-meat eating may soon extend to these creatures too.)
Harassed in the night by annoying bogans from the campsite who thought it´d be really funny to tap on our window throughout the night. Dan is getting used to it but I still manage to jump 3 feet in the air and get such an adrenaline rush that I can´t sleep again for the next hour. I´m more worried about them looking in and seeing my giant moon ar*e than I am about them breaking in to the van.
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