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Maybe a red kite?
http://birds-extremadura.blogspot.com/2011/02/red-kite-beautiful-raptor-in-danger-of.html
Thanks Andrea! Yep that's all we're doing - and having a great time! Hoping to speed up a bit and taper the spending down too, but not super worried yet.
Today we are aiming for about 50km to Leon, a more respectable distance! Wish us luck!
This climb! I’d forgotten all about it somehow. We followed the same route from Ponferrada to Astorga three years ago. On the way we passed a pilgrim hauling his belongings behind him in a wooded cart, walking to Santiago from his home in Poland.
2 years agoHi Roya!
Thanks! We are trying to make an effort to eat healthily, not just fill up on whatever calories we feel like (though we're getting through quite a lot of local cheese!).
I bought them without knowing, just to try, and I thought they were little mackerel because that's what they tasted like, but then in another shop it had an English label I can't quite remember - might've been garfish? Something you don't often see at home anyway!
“I’m a bit confused about who was pretending and why” 😂😂
2 years agoWhat’s agujas? This meal looks very impressive!
2 years agoMoral of the story, tighten every bolt on your bike before you leave and regularly thereafter!
2 years agoYeah, I think you've captured this one pretty well.
2 years agoI like your mode of travel. And that's what this is, travel, not a bike race. You are taking things in and seeing the world in a new way with fresh eyes. Keep on keeping on.
2 years agoInteresting about those birds. Hard to say without a photo or closeup of course, but Griffon vultures are a good candidate for this part of Spain: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/iberia2019/monfrague-national-park/#18882_24kl9i6iqwes31d0plbitqa8jw2
2 years agoThanks Frank! Definitely still smiling. And eating! After just a few days cycling the legs are feeling more capable already, as if by magic 🙂
2 years agoCool! Thanks Scott. Nice to know my instincts about them were correct.
2 years agoI knew there was a good reason I don’t try to adjust my own gears any more.
2 years agoThe structures you mentioned are hórreos, a grain storage structure typical of Galicia.
2 years ago
Could be! Though I see these fairly often back in the UK and thought they didn't quite look the same. Quite likely I'm just wrong!
2 years ago