RTG Espana Daily Dispatch - mid-res - Flipbook - Page 19
Day 8: Puebla de Sanabria to Luintra, 2 May 2022
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Chris and Rita Dillier, Ford Model A, followed by Dieter and Hilla
Baumhaeckel, Volvo PV544
Our night halt, the Monasterio de Santo Estevo de Ribas
de Sil was but a short drive from the final timing point.
These few kilometres gave the crews a chance to take their
foot off the gas and begin to prepare themselves for the
more cloistered existence they’d shortly be enjoying.
Thankfully the austere life of the previous occupants
wasn’t bestowed upon the current ones and, after such an
impressive day, the dinner time chatter in the refectory
could be described as lively. Abbott Appleton observed the
rule of silence whilst eating, which Saint Benedict himself
insisted upon, was being wilfully disregarded.
Gerardus Mercator, Dispatch reporter
Robert Collinge and Tony Brooks, 1966 Ford Mustang
Stanley Gold and Brant Parsons, 1965 Porsche 911
Back under its own steam, Gavin and Diana Henderson’s Bentley 3/4½
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