Sep 27
Ryley, Axel and I all shared a queen size bed which sounds roomy but with a rolly, flaily 2 year old it is NOT and neither Ryley or I got a great sleep. Axel even rolled himself off the bed and Ryley caught him by his ankle before he hit the ground – quite impressive!
Hotel breakfast was included – coffee and toast with jamõn (ham/prosciutto), olive oil and tomato sauce. It was interesting/good although not very filling. We ventured out into town mid-morning to find more breakfast but the cafés only sell coffee and more white toast with jamõn.
Axel found a playground and we found Ryley a pair of boxers to serve as shorts as his shorts fell off the trailer and he just has rain pants as back up. We hung out at the saline pool with Axel then tried town again for lunch, but were told no one serves food until night time. It seems everyone just survives on coffee and cigarettes until 9pm every night! We found a mercado and stocked up on lunch stuff and snacks and had a picnic lunch in “the nook” back at the hotel, then a nap for everyone.
We went into an ALDI grocery store in Ourique, Portugal that had carts for littles to push around and Axel has asked to find one every town we stop in since – “Axel wants a small cart”. Possibly the trip highlight for him, it really stuck! So he was pretty stoked on this push cart at the el jamõn mercado today.
Post nap was more time at the pool, then a makeshift dinner for Axel and bedtime, and a late night dinner again for Ryley and I. Axel’s dinner was: an orange, a small yogurt, pistachios, a few bites of a Pb and kiwi jam bun-which, a kiwi, and the last of the pb out of the jar. I can’t say Axel is generally awake to experience much of Spain’s food but neither are Ryley and I it seems!
These pictures are spectacular. I like the look of your lunch in the nook with a glass of wine. Not too shabby!
Yes, the nook lunch looks great! Cool photo.