A wild night last night. We shut the vents down but found that the permanent air circulation was rattling the blinds. We didn’t get much sleep between the van shaking, the blinds rattling and various objects rolling about the site.
I found myself feeling nostalgic and longing to be back on Orkney. My mind wandered about some of our favourite parking places and I think that before I dropped off for a while I was mentally settled at Harray Loch, in the Ring of Brodgar car park. I also thought much about the night that a ferry cancellation left us stranded on the big island and we slept at Finstown. We had put the steadies down to minimise movement but the van was bouncing off the stays and slamming back down again… all night long! Sufficient to say that in comparison to that night, it’s really only a stiff breeze here 🙂
Chloé is still not home. It grieved me to think about her out there, all alone on such a wild night. I miss her so much. It isn’t the same without her snuggled up to me in bed and waking me up at three a.m. with a little kiss, a head butt or three and her demands for ear scratches. I love that poor little broken cat and her funny little ways.
Last night’s Paella in the site restaurant wasn’t too bad at all and the wine was very nice indeed. A pleasant evening. Tonight we are eating in and making inroads on some of the more elderly food items that we brought from home. We have a bottle of Campo Viejo Crianza to wash it down with, a snip at 3€99 in Consum yesterday, where we also found some proper pork scratchings (very Keto!) for Apero.
Not sure when we plan to move on now. Dusty is behaving well so we may linger on in hope of Chloé returning. I doubt we will stay the full month that we intended though, I should like to be somewhere quieter where the wee boy can go out and run about a little.
One current problem is that boy is now sounding the vehicle horn. We have rigged up some protection with a wire basket and Mr Snail is researching the location of the necessary fuse to effect it’s removal. It was 7 am this morning when the horn was going off and we do not wish to make ourselves unpopular!