The weather forecast for today was bad and we had already decided beforehand to stay for two nights at the hotel Torre de Villademoros. This place could share the philosophy we learned from our partners of the Swiss foundation of vacation in historic monuments.
At this location the Romans had probably already built a guarding tower, because Roman coins and a seal were found nearby. The tower was for the first time mentioned in the 9th century, and one of the legends tells the story of the knight Diego Peláez returning from Galicia to discover that his house was now in the hands of the Moors, but when he wanted to fight to get the tower back the leader of the Moors gave up and handed the tower over.
Today the tower and the old villa beside it were renovated and turned into a hotel. It offers at the villa a wooden staircase in its centre which stands like a sculpture in the middle of a living room, with a library and a fireplace accessible to all guests. As a central staircase it connects in different levels the guest rooms. The welcoming atmosphere of the open space on the ground floor was a perfect work place where I could continue our diary in the blog on our homepage. But it didn’t rain in the beginning and we met the owner outside when we wanted to leave for a short bike tour. But I could tell from the clouds that in ten minutes the rain would start again. Our conversation ended when my forecast turned out to be correct, it started to rain heavily. So back to the living room and continue to work on the laptop.
Whenever I had finished another day for the blog, Robert corrected my texts while I selected the photos. There was a very relaxed atmosphere. Other guests came in and joined us in the living room. Quickly we had an interesting talk with a couple from Germany, where the man came from Frankfurt and the lady from Fürstenfeldbruck, not too far from our hometown Starnberg. He was very interested in our “Less-is-More-Tour” as he was once member of the environmental committee of the Hessian Parliament.
He explained me how to stay cool whenever someone doubts the facts of climate change and attacks me. His Hessian proverb, which he used as a rule for life was the recipe for taking any aggression the ZEN-way: “Bevor isch misch ufreg, isset mir egal!” (=” Before I get upset, I don’t give a hoot!”). As our conversation got more and more intense my diary had to wait again, especially because the weather got better and we wanted to have a look at the wild coast line.
The trails were a bit washed out by the rain, but we made it down to a pebble beach below the steep cliffs to see the waves crashing on the shore with a loud roar. It was way too dangerous to enter the water, but great to watch the ocean power in action.
Everything was covered with salt spray and sand after this short visit down to the beach.
It was good to return to a relaxed evening and another good meal at the Torre de Villademoros.
