Sunday 7 October A lie in ,with the sniffles whilst Andy pottered about the van , a freezing cold night ( 1300 m high is the campsite we stayed at in the national Parque de Alvao ) requiring blanket and fleece for me ) We walked around a small lake 5 minutes walk from the campsite beautiful sunshine 19 C and then followed a very easy circular rural trail for 5 k, (with the help of a map thoughtfully pinned to the bird watching hide,which Andy borrowed and returned ) . Much too cold despite the sunshine to contemplate a swim .Most of the best trails are a car drive away ,but quite an amazing site with stone round buildings .Hot plentiful showers , hufe showerheads , clean, toilet paper, v helpful staff , mainly Portugese families out walking , swimming pool , all very new.Building signs however were very small on door entries and doors were not where you expected them to be , i ended up circling the ladies loo round building several times to locate the door and then a few more times round before I could be sure it wasn't the gents ! Packed up and made for the Spanish border and the NW coast Hour change in time again so parked in a wild camping spot before darkness fell ( Embelse de Val Pairaisa) approx 85 kilometers from the Alvao campsite in the direction of Leon Found a great petrol station across the Spanish border from Chaves, and filled up on LPG gas and diesel .