Day 5 – Puerto Lapice

We were up earlier today and serviced the van with water as in the winter you are never sure if the tap will be switched off. We were ready to go by 9:45am and then drove round to the fuel station. The price was 1 cent cheaper at 97cents per litre. I like the prices here.

With a full tank we were soon on our way for a 300 mile drive south to our overnight destination. The winds were really bad and were affecting the handling of the vans. Terry was struggling with keeping his van to an economic speed going uphill and along the straights. It was very much colder as we climbed to higher altitudes.

Our final resting place tonight has an outlook over open ground in a small village. There is one other English van on their way back to Blighty via Santander. They have an estate agency in Wareham of all places and know other friends from our DA …. Geoff & Lorraine Shaylor. They live on the road that runs down to our holiday site. Small world eh!

Spent some time chatting to them and then having an early night as its been quite tiring with the long drive…we arrived here at 5pm just as it was getting dark.

Tomorrow will see us do some shopping and continuing south to the coast where it should be getting even warmer. The temperature rose 5°C as we came down from the mountains where we were seeing 14°C. It should be the last of the day long drives for a while.