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My reading material during my trip.

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Hmm... not quite the "Welcome home" I'd been hoping for....

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Nearly home and look who were waiting for me to greet me at my last stop ;-)

Also: compare with the photos from the very first post in this thread: the pup has gained 10 kilos in those few weeks....

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All good things come to an end... time to make my way back home.

So long Iberica, and thanks for all the fish.

#France

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Open question: what do you see when you look at this sign ?

When I look at it, I see a missed opportunity for a couple more design review rounds before mass-producing it....

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Would you risk the roof of your car driving through this tunnel ?

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And guess what.... back in Northern Spain, so I'm back in the snow again.... _sigh_

Compliments to the Spanish road workers though as the (mountain) road was mostly clear and most definitely perfectly passable (but slow going all the same).

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Oh my life! I saw an otter in the wild !!!!

Unfortunately too quick for me to grab my camera. I hung around for another hour of so in the hopes it would show itself again, but no such luck unfortunately.

#ParqueNaturalDeRedes

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Oh and I'm back in Northern Spain now and guess what.....

🎵 It's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend 🎵

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Spain: a country of water extremes - lots of areas suffering from too little, some of too much...

Case in point - I tried to visit a historical site with a Roman archeological dig.
Only to find it flooded...

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Case of random oversharing...

A proud elderly Portuguese gentlemen during a five minute encounter at a bar:
"I'm not big, but" - nods to a woman sitting close-by at a table - "that's my fifth wife".

Dude... you do realize there is literally nothing about that statement to be proud about ????

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Two bridges along the same road.

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Anyone lost their pet crocodile ?

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Been driving through forest/brush fire territory.

The scars are visible throughout the landscape.

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While traveling, I've been giving hotel staff hell about GDPR violations.

No, you do not NEED my phone number. Same for my email address.

Worst offender was a hotel which refused to let me register without providing my full HOME address and then was at a loss on how to delete the data they had entered so far (as I was taking my business elsewhere, so I demanded they removed it).

With a hotel with 500+ rooms, hacker-B&E-ring heaven....

Hope @heatherburns will be proud 😍

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Nice wide cycle path, don't you think ?

Nope, this is an actual full blown two direction road for cars....

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Just a pretty little waterfall (near the gold mine).

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Weight station from an old gold mine.

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Made some friends near Porto D'Ohlo

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Oh and in case you didn't realize, this country has a strong history based in Catholicism and in case you ever forget, there is a reminder of it around every other corner.