Work with horses and escape to Portugal!

typical store houses in Galicia and dog The Boss drinking

In Galicia I started my second work near Esgos near Ourense. Izcalli had 6 own horses and 2 from other people. There also was another helper, Kira from Germany. The first night she told me some stories which weren't nice and gave me a bad impression of the next weeks. I wanted to stay three weeks there, also at Semana Santa (Eastern), But I left after one week together with Kira.

Kira and one horse

The reasons: Cold and rainy weather, no heater inside the house, a broken fence every day, some days in a rope no healthy food. Izcalli told us again and again, that she hadn't time to buy some stuff, so went one morning to the village to buy something. This shouldn't be my job, but ok. The house was so cold, even in my winterjacket I was freezing. As I said, the horses broke the fence every day. I rebuilt the fence and Kira catched the horses. We hadn't much to do, so we looked for work on ourself. It seemed that we cleaned the stables from 5-years old shit, disgusting!!!

the only one female dog and cat Kamel

The dogs were great. But sometimes it was stressfull, too. They followed us everyday to the village, when we wanted to go the Library for internet access! So we tried to get all somewhere inside the house, not that easy. But in other cases it was great to have the dogs, Tika, The Boss and all the others I forgot the names, around!
I also liked the two cats, Lila and Kamel, they warmed us insinde the house ;)

Izcalli was a strange person, too, so I decided to leave after one week with Kira and we went to Oporto in Portugal! And it felt so good being out of Spain, because we had SUN and it was warm. We really enjoyed it! We walked through the city until our CS-host picked us up and drove to his flat directly in front of the Atlantic Sea, so wonderful! After watching the sunset we had dinner together and went to bed. We have been so tired. The next day we made a walk along the coast. The night program made our host. We (our host, Kira, and two other couchsurfer from England) celebrated a Couchsurfing brithday. There was one guy in Oporto and he had 600!!! Couchsurfers in 2 years! Apprx. 20 people celebrated this in a restaurant. At 1 am, they wanted to go to disco, but Kira and me we decided to go home. We said, we can find it on ourselves, but we needed two hours!! The taxi driver didn't understand us, and we neither knew the exactly adress nor the village other host lived....

Oporto

Kira and me

At the 1st April Kira flew home to Germany and I continued my way and went back to Spain, Oviedo!
My April-joke for my mother was a textmessage that I missed the bus, try to hitch hike and found a first lift to the border. Haha, she was so worried and my sister wrote me later: Good Joke ;) !

Atlantic coast and Oporto from the brigde