Sunday 10th January

Headed off to a shopping centre for a food shop, as unlike the French or Spanish the Portuguese actually shop on a Sunday. Also the Portuguese have big food halls in their shopping centre’s, full of small restaurant outlets with huge platefuls of mouth watering food for a very good price. Anyway, we then headed off in the rain for the national park, Serra da Estrela, and skiing. After a couple of hours we were going up into the hills and the wind. The roads started getting icy the further we headed into the centre of the park, until we reached an electronic sign telling us the roads circling the mountains were closed. We headed back and drove around a fair bit near Gouveia until we found somewhere to park up by some sort of stadium, near the road.