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| Vitoria to Mont de Marson - 167 miles |
Oh bother! Woken at
3.00 am to rain and a drip, drip, drip – we'd got a leak in the
skylight, the one we had resealed a couple of years ago. There really
wasn't much we could do about it except shove a bowl underneath and
go back to bed.
By morning the rain had
stopped, as had the drip, but without getting onto the roof with some
sealant not a lot we could do so dried out where we could and left it
for now. After breakfast we went to the Mercadona supermarket across
the road but it was shut, again! We've never actually seen it open in
several visits! So back to the van, a quick service and off to a
local garage where we refilled the gas and fuel tanks and topped up
the suspension pressure which had faded a bit causing Bertie to roll
a little when cornering.
Back to a quite busy
motorway and head for San Sebastion and France. We dropped off the
Spanish plateau and noted a significant temperature increase; coupled
with a brighter day it made for a pleasant drive. As usual we took
the toll road through the border then stopped at a service area for
lunch to plan our route.
Not being in too much
of a rush we thought we'd find a different way north for a change and
decided to go a little to the east through Lot and the Dordogne. This
would avoid toll roads and also the very boring N10, which now has a
blanket 80 kph (50 mph) speed limit on it for us, being over 3.5t.
Our intial aim point was Mont de Marson but TomTom wasn't happy about
already being on a toll road and promptly took us into the nightmare
of D roads around Bayonne, roads we usually take great care to avoid.
We laboured through stop start traffic until eventually breaking free
onto the open road once again.
We drove straight
through the middle of Mont de Marson, picking up a Swedish motorhome
as a tail, before finding a pleasant commercial aire on the
outskirts. Fully automated, we “checked in” then found a nice
spot and settled down for just the one night.
There is obviously an
air base of some sort close by, although we never actually located
it, as for an hour or so we were “entertained” by a small jet
aircraft obviously doing some local training. But it did stop as it
got dark. We just hope now that it doesn't rain..............!
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