Friday September 3rd
Last entry was from LeClerc near Rouen. We drove from there towards Le Mans and arrived there at 2.00pm. We stopped and had a drink at the Aire it was lovely to sit out in actual hot sunshine even for just a short time. We looked at the maps and decided we would drive down and get as near as we can to Bordeaux. It is a long way but Bill seems to think we could stay at an ETAP tonight (he he he). I actually heard him mutter this morning as we were packing up “camping is crap”. It was his idea in the first place, I didn’t say anything! We’ll see how it goes. It is such a pleasure to drive on French motorways which are comparatively empty compared to our local motorways.

We can charge this netbook in the car. The dongle I mentioned earlier would have meant we could access the internet more easily but when it still had not arrived the morning we were due to leave we rang Virgin and they said it had not been sent and nobody seemed to know anything about it. They are sending one to our house and our lovely neighbour (and follower) Jean is going to send it down to Vejer. In the meantime we have to look out for wifi hotspots. At least I can write in the car and just copy it onto the blog when I get a chance.

By the way the knitting is going well!”

Saturday September 4th

We are actually now in a logis south of Saintes in a place called Pons. We drove last night until about 8pm and were too tired to set up camp at the local municipal campsite. We were both pretty weary and couldn’t wait to have a shower (hot) and a good sleep. The place is fine, not altogether functional I must say, the food last night took an age and we were served on the terrace outside where it was so dark we couldn’t see what we were eating. Eventually Bill asked could we bring our food indoors, after that it was better. The bath doesn’t work properly, the water will only come from the shower head not the taps and the telly doesn’t come on but after last night at Rouen it seems heavenly. It is a bit hard to work out the theme for this place, there are posters up of children’s games and clown pictures and puppets hanging all over the place, our room seem to have a Tintin thing going on.

Later Saturday, got down all the way to San Sebastian, have resumed camping life, found fabulous campsite with all possible facilities, we set up camp very quickly. We are now drinking San Miguel and spanish tortilla outside tent soaking up sun, all lovely. Fingers crossed the airbed does not go down too rapidly tonight. we have great views of the Pyrenees from here. Hopefully stop a couple of nights. Enjoying being back in Spain where we can at last communicate with people. Better dash before our battery goes flat.