Monday 8th October
Great wildcamp site by a lake (Barragem de Valparaiso near Villadeciervos) with its own beach, but frost in the morning put us off a swim, so we set off at 11.00 am. Wonderful scenic drive into the Picos regional park past old coal mines, our first sighting of the jagged limestone massifs. We stopped on a wild camp spot overlooking the splendid lake in Riano, fantastic views but a totally shut down soul less seasonal holiday town (relocated/ rebuilt when the original town in the valley was drowned by the reservoir. It had its own outdoor wrestling ring and a paseo del recuerde , a 15 minute paved memory walk from the jetty to the edge of town, commemorating important buildings / festivals in the history of the town, before it was re-located to higher ground. Plagued by flies in the afternoon and evening, and therefore an early and overlong night spent in the van.
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| Rianu |
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| The wrestling ring |
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| Sunset in Rianu. The old village, flooded when the reservoir was built, is beneath the causeway. |
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