31st january - towards San Sebastian
Local baker open for french stick and having been 'wild camping'. (No services at all, so no hook up to electrics etc), there was not much to do. The van is so like a boat really as i have always said. There is quite a lot of pallava when mooring up and the less stuff you have have to do the quicker you can leave. We didn't even need the flippers in (the big yellow leveller thingies that you can put under the tyres) last night, so a quick bite of brekka and away.
We are fed up with driving and realise how leisurely we took our previous trip 5 years ago. Sometimes only driving 75 odd miles in a day, compared to 300 odd this week. Yes, it would be good to get some better weather, but it is still a holiday.
Sun came out for much of our shortish trip today. Approx 200 miles, and it really warmed up this afternoon. I have just found a temperature guage on the van. At 4.30 this afternoon it was 17 degrees outside. Marvellous, and 24 degrees inside. Panting!
We have rather stupidly arrived at the same boring aire we used in San Sebastian last time. No good walking and no views. Also, i think we are a bit naive about our water usage, as the tank was completely empty when i tried making tea this afternnoon. The aire has a meter for parking here. €3.25 per day. Pretty cheap and the water is free. So jc takes the dogs out to find a park and I move the van round to the water tap. It is like the showers you find in the campsites. You have to keep pushing it in to get water out. God, filling the tank will take ages. No worries, what else have I to do?
By the time I got back to my parking space a 7 meter Coral SP was reversing into it. My Spanglais is just as good as ever I find, and soon they were moving out.
Went to local bar for drink and wifi. JC very happy as 2x bieres and 2 x Verdeho €6.
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