Well the day began well but ended in very fine drizzle. Enough to darken the colour of your clothes, and make you cold but barely enough to wet you. The wind was blowing from the West and, since the entire route is South to North, only my left side got damp. It was a lazy start to the day with an 0930 interview with Sandra and Colby from Radio Libertad in Madrid as part of their radio show for improvers in English. They are going to get a weekly update on my progress. After the interview I managed to find La Casa De La Cultura and they kindly let me use their computer to update this blog. Waiting for me was an email from my friend Pablo in Los Angeles saying that he had been listening to the radio show via Internet. If anyone needs proof that the world has become very small then surely this is it! Me, on a mobile phone in a hostal in Extramadura, being interviewed from a studio in Madrid, while my friend in Los Angeles listens in! As I left the village I had 1 Red Kite overhead but as I turned a corner I had an amazing wildlife spot. A stream only 2m wide ran to the left of the track and just as I got level with it, 3 fresh water otters ran across, right in front of me! Now maybe some of you cannot go outside without seeing otters but despite the fact that I grew up on an 80km long lake, it was my first time to see fresh water otters in the wild. I have seen salt water otters off California but this was a real "Ring of bright water" experience.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Monesterio to Fuente de Cantos
Well the day began well but ended in very fine drizzle. Enough to darken the colour of your clothes, and make you cold but barely enough to wet you. The wind was blowing from the West and, since the entire route is South to North, only my left side got damp. It was a lazy start to the day with an 0930 interview with Sandra and Colby from Radio Libertad in Madrid as part of their radio show for improvers in English. They are going to get a weekly update on my progress. After the interview I managed to find La Casa De La Cultura and they kindly let me use their computer to update this blog. Waiting for me was an email from my friend Pablo in Los Angeles saying that he had been listening to the radio show via Internet. If anyone needs proof that the world has become very small then surely this is it! Me, on a mobile phone in a hostal in Extramadura, being interviewed from a studio in Madrid, while my friend in Los Angeles listens in! As I left the village I had 1 Red Kite overhead but as I turned a corner I had an amazing wildlife spot. A stream only 2m wide ran to the left of the track and just as I got level with it, 3 fresh water otters ran across, right in front of me! Now maybe some of you cannot go outside without seeing otters but despite the fact that I grew up on an 80km long lake, it was my first time to see fresh water otters in the wild. I have seen salt water otters off California but this was a real "Ring of bright water" experience.
