Saturday 31st October

After leaving A Rua this morning we travelled west down the valley of the Rio Sil. We stopped along the way to take this picture of the river.

After a journey of 56 miles (90 kilometres) we reached the Galician town of Chantada and stopped for the day at the Aire which is next to the football ground and a very nice small river.

There is a weir on the river below where we are parked.

This is looking back up from the river to where we parked our campervan.

We walked along the river into town. Strangely for Spain all the shops seemed to be open at lunchtime. Maybe things are different in Galicia? We bought a bottle of Albarinio, the wine from the Rias Baixas (the Lower Estuaries),  where we hope to travel to tomorrow.

After returning from town we walked a little way up the river and collected chestnuts in this wild area.

As we were parked next to the football ground and there was a match on we decided to attend. Chantada (in red) won 3-0 in a local league match. The standard of play wasn't very high - mainly booting long balls up the middle. 

As we don't have an oven in the van it was a question as to how to cook the chestnuts. We peeled and sliced them and then fried them in butter with some salt and black pepper. We ate them with mushrooms, chicken fried in olive oil, garlic and chilli, some fresh local crusty bread and all washed down with the Albarino we bought earlier.