Well, perhaps.
An odd thing happened last week and that was the local supermarkets all sold out of the frozen veg mix I normally buy for Ludvig. He eats pellets, a seed and fruit mix and the veg mix. It’s the pellets and the seed and nut mix that I worry about not being able to get, not the frozen veg! But we couldn’t get anything suitable. The only ones available had either mushrooms or asparagus in it, neither of which he should eat, or were over loaded with potato, which he should only eat in moderation.
So we went to Foz, which is the big town to the west and found his food in the first supermarket we went to – I guess the benefit of being in a big town.
As an aside, cats and parrots have a lot in common when it comes to food. They go from ‘this is my favourite food’ to a horrified ‘….and you’re feeding me this’ on a regular basis. Ludvig, being a dramatic parrot, actually does it in a spectacular way. If he decides, for example, that today he doesn’t like grapes. He’ll make sure I’m looking, lock eyes with me, and then pick the grapes out of his food bowl and carefully flick his head to throw the grapes away. He does it in a very slow and controlled way – which is actually quite sinister. Well, it would be if he didn’t then break into the Good Morning song, inform me that African Greys are great or start barking. Thinking about it, I must be overdue a blog post about Ludvig and his entertaining ways – I’ve given up trying to count how many words he knows now. It’s certainly a lot – and combined with his barking, meowing and ‘hey googles’, there’s never a dull (or quiet) moment!
Anyway – coming back from Foz we stopped at the old Castro where we have been before. The first part of this was built in the stone age, and later Romans built a bit onto it too. So I like to think that we are following in the tradition of people eating here for over 2000 years!
It makes a great place for a picnic – there are lots of walls to sit on, and these also provide protection from the wind on windy days.
The views are almost 360 here. The old Castros were built on headlands like this. The one by us hasn’t been excavated yet, but would be similar. Certainly the situation is almost identical. I guess easy to defind.
One thing that always makes Ian laugh is this ‘safety rail’. Surely more trip hazard than safety rail (I should have put something by it to give an indication of height – it’s about wellington boot height!
And this is really just a reminder for me to find out what these are. We see a lot of them on cliffs etc, so I guess it’s some form of marker – but what are they marking I wonder…
