Sunday 25th October

This morning dawned reasonably bright but as the day went on there were variable amounts of cloud. This picture was taken looking down the hill from our overnight parking place in the Sierra de Montanchez showing agricultural terraces.

We moved on heading north towards the city of Caceres. We temporarily started heading south due to first ignoring our sat nav's directions and then deciding to follow them. We stopped briefly along the way to investigate this (fake?) Castle.

After stopping just short of Caceres to fill our LPG cylinders we parked at the City Aire. We had travelled 42 miles (68 kilometres) today. We have been here before - in 2012. We walked the short distance to the historic centre.

It was (of course) as we remembered it from our previous visit. Narrow streets leading to squares with imposing buildings.

These marvellous old buildings were built with the wealth the Spanish Conquistadores brought back from the Americas.

Here's another one.

There are numerous churches in the historic centre of Caceres - they all seemed to be having religious goings on of one kind or another this Sunday afternoon. Who says all churches in Spain are always locked?

We saw this statue just outside the town walls.

This is the Plaza Major, just outside of the old town walls. Numerous tourists and numerous eateries here.

When we arrived here about mid day there were only a couple of other vans in the Aire. This evening the Aire is completely full and there are just as many vans outside in the bus and car parking areas. Very popular this Caceres place! (Sorry the pictures' a bit blurred) We tried to go out for a meal but all the local eateries were closed it seemed despite their having signs outside indicating that they would be open from 20.00 onwards but then what do we foreigners know?