Time to head east in order to get to Perigord for the weekend and M2's family holiday. We hit the road by 0830 as we would lose an hour coming into Spain which we did within half an hour. The van kept up her stirling performance as we sped on quiet roads (plenty of evidence of European money) through Zamora, Valladolid, Burgos, Vitoria, San Sebastian and into France at Biarritz. 641km of mostly easy driving through the ever changing scenery. Spain is a huge country and we will look forward to our return. Our chosen overnight stop at a farm listed in Passion France was quickly dismissed as we would have had to park on a pile of old bricks in an unsavoury yard. Our next choice of campsite although easily found was closed so we started a square search of Ondres before finding one which could take us in pine woods close to the beach. Tired and with the strong westerly wind making the 15 deg temperature seem even colder we failed to connect to an electricity supply then realised that the tin of confit de canard bought for our supper was in fact duck gizzards!! Undaunted, we cooked and ate them without fuss - actually, they had little taste to worry about and we are still here to tell the tale!
Wind and rain continued throughout the night but we slept pretty well.
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