Wednesday 26 March 2014

So much for peaceful! It seems that the building we were parked next to was a council depot, that started work at 7.30, testing the equipment being used - chainsaws and strimmers. Then shortly afterwards a road crew started resurfacing about 50 metres from us so by 8.00 all hell had broken loose! So we got up and had an early start for a change.

Santiago de Compostela was on our route but as the weather forecast was not helpful we had already decided to give it a miss this time round. Well we've got to save something for the future! So rather than follow a fairly tortuous path around the coast we set the netbook to take us more or less straight to the north Spanish coast, to another attractive looking aire at Foz. A pleasant enough drive though we suffered frequent, sometimes heavy rain showers most of the way. A little bit of non-toll motorway for a change then a standard N road which so happened to run alongside an obviously new motorway not on our maps!

Foz turned out to be a very pleasant sea-side town and the aire a large empty open space overlooking an estuary and out to sea. Although a little earlier than we normally stop, we were both a little tired after the late night and early start, and tomorrows leg should place us very well for the Picos mountains.

View from Foz aire