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| El Encinar to Vitoria - 234 miles |
A cold night, not
surprising when we were almost 3000 ft amsl, but at least nothing
froze up this time. However the heating was switched on for the first
time in ages – and the gas bottle promptly ran out! So change
bottles, work out what time it was then Sunday Breakfast. A cleanup,
service the van and on our way again.
Found our way back to
the motorway around Salamancar then up a good but quite busy
motorway, not particularly interesting but at least the sun was
shining. We pulled off for a comfort/lunch stop just before Burgos as
we couldn't find a service area – then 500m after we rejoined the
autovia there was a rest area!
We recently learned
that Spain has taken over many of the toll-road companies as they
have gone bust, not taking enough to cover their costs. As a result a
number of autopistas are now free, as was the case with the AP1 from
Burgos to Vitoria, a fact which it seemed TomTom already knew because
he happily planned a route up it despite being told not to use toll
roads. Clever dick machines! So more fast cruising through the
mountains until we turned off at Vitoria-Gasteiz (double barrelled
name because it is the Basque capital of Spain and all signs have the
basque equivalent on them).
The aire here has been
extended yet again but was still almost full, however we found a spot and
settled in. We could have got further today but were concerned that
there might not be room in other aires further north. Anyway we will need fuel
and gas in the morning and there is a suitable place 5 minutes away
from the parking.
Now debating a route up
through France; we're on schedule so something a bit different would
be nice although the weather forecast for later in the week isn't
encouraging.
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