Today will be our last day on the island until we visit again. Which we're sure we will. Sadly we need to make tracks up country as on Monday evening we will be returning home. We can't believe how quickly the weeks have passed by. Our visits to Barcelona, Granada and Seville, places we really wanted to see, seem like they were on a different holiday.
Yet more walking today, this time to Saint-Martin-de-Re. It's always a pleasure to visit here, and sit by the harbour drinking tea and coffee whilst we people watch.
We especially like to see the donkeys, who today in the midday heat cooled themselves by standing beneath the arches of the bridge by the prison. Yes, this tiny island unbelievably has a prison with 380 inmates. After a while, perhaps knowing a photo opportunity was waiting for them, the donkeys wandered out, nibbling at the lush green grass, and stretching their necks to eat the succulent new shoots in the hedgerows. Yesterday, we'd stopped to watch some goats behaving in much the same way. The temperature rising, we ambled back. No meal out tonight, but as always a bag of frozen paella from the supermarket is a good substitute. It's our go to meal. Of course this evening we will walk out again, we couldn't leave the Ile de Re without seeing one last sunset.
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