Today was just unbelievably wet. Really heavy showers all day and a couple of snowstorms. Getting 100 yards behind a lorry in the same track were our tactics.
Going round the rocade of Bordeaux cost us 45 minutes because of the jam so we made what we thought was an informed judgement on paying 6.50 to use the Bordeaux Biarritz road. It saved us 2 hours so arriving at our destination in good time. But then you have to pay another 6.50 then 6.60 then 4 euros. I d had enough of this unlenny like behaviour and got off as soon as we could and that even cost 1.11 euros ! This was hurting more than my back. But we saw an auchan in Spain as soon as we got off the toll road and Paula had the app but couldn't work out if 1.55 was cheap or not. Going by the queues for petrol and then filling up cans in the back of their cars we thought it would be cheap. I paid beforehand and selected diesel, picked up the black gasolena pump and halfway through filling up Paula tells me I ve got the wrong one because it's only 1.45. There was a medium to mild panic at this stage and I was bordering on nearly confident we had put diesel in. The next 20 miles in snowstorms wondering where the info was for breakdown recovery were mildly concerning.
But we made it and found new questions which may be answered in time for tomorrow's exciting episode of Spanish via Verde. If there are 2 lanes in your direction on a road and one in the opposite direction and your sign shows 70 for the middle of the three lanes. Do you drive on the right lane or the middle lane ?
Anyway we got to Calahorra with free Aire free water and potentially free electric. 8 official spots but shed loads of extra space in the car park. A walk over the bridge to what appears from the outside to be an old hilltop town so a walk with my poles and we saw 2 kids about 8 running away having set off firecrackers in a coke can. 30 seconds later 2 plod were walking about. Nobody else around ...... Until we turned left and presume they had just had some kind of kids bull run. We think there is a bull run tomorrow at 5 so our plan is to do half of the 33km cycle tomorrow then drive up to the finish on Monday where we can do the other half and finish with a free hot bath as there are some 52 degree natural baths at the end.
Photos are all of calahorra
We went back out tonight as there was something we translated as a giant puppet fire.
As we passed the church it was open and popped in like you do and some lovely gold architecture. The vicar or priest welcomed us and a conversation in french revealed 2 martyrs were buried in the church having been crucified by the Romans.
Off to the puppet burning and our mistranslation led us to punch and judy
Then a wonder around the streets with a packed market.
We had fireworks last night, a bonfire tonight and disco til stupid o clock but we can't hear anything.
7 in the Aire last night. Only us tonight.
Going round the rocade of Bordeaux cost us 45 minutes because of the jam so we made what we thought was an informed judgement on paying 6.50 to use the Bordeaux Biarritz road. It saved us 2 hours so arriving at our destination in good time. But then you have to pay another 6.50 then 6.60 then 4 euros. I d had enough of this unlenny like behaviour and got off as soon as we could and that even cost 1.11 euros ! This was hurting more than my back. But we saw an auchan in Spain as soon as we got off the toll road and Paula had the app but couldn't work out if 1.55 was cheap or not. Going by the queues for petrol and then filling up cans in the back of their cars we thought it would be cheap. I paid beforehand and selected diesel, picked up the black gasolena pump and halfway through filling up Paula tells me I ve got the wrong one because it's only 1.45. There was a medium to mild panic at this stage and I was bordering on nearly confident we had put diesel in. The next 20 miles in snowstorms wondering where the info was for breakdown recovery were mildly concerning.
But we made it and found new questions which may be answered in time for tomorrow's exciting episode of Spanish via Verde. If there are 2 lanes in your direction on a road and one in the opposite direction and your sign shows 70 for the middle of the three lanes. Do you drive on the right lane or the middle lane ?
Anyway we got to Calahorra with free Aire free water and potentially free electric. 8 official spots but shed loads of extra space in the car park. A walk over the bridge to what appears from the outside to be an old hilltop town so a walk with my poles and we saw 2 kids about 8 running away having set off firecrackers in a coke can. 30 seconds later 2 plod were walking about. Nobody else around ...... Until we turned left and presume they had just had some kind of kids bull run. We think there is a bull run tomorrow at 5 so our plan is to do half of the 33km cycle tomorrow then drive up to the finish on Monday where we can do the other half and finish with a free hot bath as there are some 52 degree natural baths at the end.
Photos are all of calahorra
We went back out tonight as there was something we translated as a giant puppet fire.
As we passed the church it was open and popped in like you do and some lovely gold architecture. The vicar or priest welcomed us and a conversation in french revealed 2 martyrs were buried in the church having been crucified by the Romans.
Off to the puppet burning and our mistranslation led us to punch and judy
Then a wonder around the streets with a packed market.
We had fireworks last night, a bonfire tonight and disco til stupid o clock but we can't hear anything.
7 in the Aire last night. Only us tonight.
