It's autumn in Spain, we're on the road again

[Ralphey]

We've been at home for the last few weeks awaiting a parcel that went AWOL. It was a vital bit for our motorhome in-house entertainment, a new router to team with a new antenna to give us better Internet signals.

The parcel didn't arrive, so we had the money refunded and another was ordered. The day after the replacement arrived, so did a battered box containing the original.

It's awaiting returning to Germany, but we've decided it can wait until we've had our delayed trip.

We feel that the delay may have been a good omen for us, because we would have been away in the motorhome over the last week and we may have been affected by the floods. Not least because I'd got a place called Letur in mind to visit. Letur was also hit by a big flood, with damaged roads and buildings. We feel very lucky but sad for the village.

However, we are now away. We've headed away from the coastal strip where the DANA is mainly concentrated. Our first stop is on a small motorhome area at the village of San Pedro, 35km or so west of Albacete. We've just arrived so we haven't explored yet, lunch was more important.

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Looks good that area

 

[bladerunner]

Brilliant, my idea of a great trip.

 

[jumartoo]

This morning everything was dripping wet with condensation. I could hear it dripping onto the roof and, at first, I thought it was raining or at least foggy, but no, it was just moisture laden air.

By 10.30 it was sunny and we were ready to go. We rode along the via verde in a westerly direction. All the tunnels that had lights lit up on our approach (we'd got headtorches jic) not like last time when they stayed dark and our lights struggled.

From the last tunnel we then took a, new to us, track alongside a small river, crossing a shallow Ford, and climbing up to a small village (La Hoz). There was a few kilometres of quiet road (AB 519) to Peñascosa, which has a motorhome service point, next to the weighbridge and the Internet mast, but no official parking. Just down the minor road towards the cemetery there's ample flat, gravelly, ground for parking.

From there, a wide track took us through a Finca and into Robledo.

We were back at the van just in time for lunch which for us is around 2 pm.

The Spanish (or Catalan) neighbours are staying here again also. He borrowed our ladders to clean his solar panel earlier and tomorrow he's going to Riopar and to see the waterfall at the start of the Rio Mundo. I expect it to be quite stunning right now.

Along the via verde and the last tunnel.

Road bridge and viaducts on the via verde

The Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Cortes. We didn't visit today, we were there in March.

In La Hoz

Peñascosa

Church in Robledo

 

[jumartoo]

https://www.santuariodecortes.es/

 

[jumartoo]

It's cold here (van heating was on earlier). Moving on today to the free, with leccy, motorhome area inside the gates of a bullring. You need to send an email to get the gate code. Martin did that yesterday evening and got the code by return. He then received a further email wishing us a good stay, and giving us information of local things to see, places to eat, where the bread shop is, etc. This village is tiny, so someone is progressive. Reports on P4N for last week during the storms said that the police came to check is all was OK and handed over a bag of muffins. Will they do the same for us??? Trouble is Martin's not eating cakes, and I never do. I wonder if we can ask for a bottle of olive oil instead

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[Wanders from Glos]

It's cold here (van heating was on earlier). Moving on today to the free, with leccy, motorhome area inside the gates of a bullring. You need to send an email to get the gate code. Martin did that yesterday evening and got the code by return. He then received a further email wishing us a good stay, and giving us information of local things to see, places to eat, where the bread shop is, etc. This village is tiny, so someone is progressive. Reports on P4N for last week during the storms said that the police came to check is all was OK and handed over a bag of muffins. Will they do the same for us??? Trouble is Martin's not eating cakes, and I never do. I wonder if we can ask for a bottle of olive oil instead

Sounds very progressive, where is this?

 

[Peavy]

That sounds great. Expect the unexpected sometimes

 

[jumartoo]

Sounds very progressive, where is this?

It's here. Blue dot in the centre.

It wouldn't suit a lot of people as the village isn't a tourist trap. We like this area because the biking is extensive and easy.

 

[suavecarve]

Thanks for another journey. You are spot on for where we are aiming this March and 3 out of the 3 aires have already made it onto our updated map.

 

[jumartoo]

It was forecast to be a grey, cool day today, so we decided to have a knee rest day. Sods Law that the sun has made an appearance.

Never mind. We've walked into the village, up to the windmill and then into the square. The church and old theatre and town hall are nice buildings. There was a parcel delivery van parked right in front of the theatre. We thought he was leaving, the engine was running, but he kept getting a parcel and disappearing again. We went into the church and he was still there when we came out, but lucky for us, he left shortly afterwards

We're taking advantage of the leccy to airfry a jacket spud each (potato Peavy ). It does work off the inverter but an hour is a long time to be running it.

Town Hall (ayuntamiento)

Old theatre. We ate there on the last day of our first Don Quixote bike ride. They now do a menu del dia, then we only got a sandwich, but each one would have fed two. They wrapped half up for us to take away!

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[jumar]

OK....you can ride your bike tomorrow Judith.

 

[Wanders from Glos]

It's here. Blue dot in the centre.

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It wouldn't suit a lot of people as the village isn't a tourist trap. We like this area because the biking is extensive and easy.

Thanks, looks good.