We said farewell to all our international band of new friends in Portugal today – Jan, Peter the camping rebel, Manfred, Karin, Wolfgang the cat slayer, François Gadget and Hubert l’écrivain - and set off back to Spain.
Not knowing how much longer the dodgy weather would last we decided we would rather be rained on in Spain than in Portugal. Both of us want to improve our Spanish so at least we can be practising the 'Michel Thomas' we do in the car in real situations. We settled on a campsite from our new book of discounted off-peak campsites in El Rocio which is close to Seville on the Doñana nature reserve.
We were pleased with the friendly, clean and well-ordered site that we found outside this most unusual town. El Rocio has no roads only sand-tracks. It looks like the kind of town you would see in an old western. Very quiet and rather mysterious we finally worked out from various sources that it was a town made famous for an ornate to the extreme statue of the Madonna it houses in its church. For about a week every year in summer over a million visitors descend on this small town to benefit from the healing qualities it is believed to possess. For the rest of the year nothing much happens though people travel here to buy elaborate handmade flamenco outfits and fine equestrian goods.
Much to our delight the campsite had films to lend out and we watched only our second since leaving home – The Good Shepherd. With popcorn too it was an exciting treat!
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