Monday 4th January

Today we headed for the city of Braga in search of a motorhome shop and maybe if we were lucky finally a laundrette. We had a wonder around the city found the tourist office, they told us a location of a motorhome shop and off we went. The shop was run by a great character that had taken ownership of a vagabond dog that just wouldn’t stop jumping up at him. One thing we have noticed about Portugal is there seems to be a huge amount of stray dogs everywhere. Anyway, we purchased our toilet seal and headed back to the city. After driving around near the University we finally found a self-service laundrette, for our now huge amount of washing. The only problem was in the amazement of seeing the laundrette we carried on driving down a road and wondered why a man was running beside shouting at us! Turns out as we were looking at the laundrette we had missed the no entry sign and had driven the wrong way down a one-way street. After the laundry was done we found a spot to park near a Religious building called Bom Jesus just on the edge of the city.