Huesca camping was better than this picture suggests!
It’s wonderful to be completely isolated from domestic policies in the UK and the global worries of the recession. Nevertheless, we were made aware that 7 June was a big election day in France. Wonder how it will go? One of the candidate names we recognised was that of Daniel Cohn Bendit whom we think was a leader of the student riots in Paris in 1968.
Over supper the previous night we had decided to head even further south and west and get to Talavera to seek the warmth of central Spain and get back on the trail of Wellington and his army. It would be a long drive but it fitted our mood. We left by 0850 and were quickly en route with EMU purring her way along. We shared the driving but M1 stayed at the wheel slightly too long at the end of a long day a drifted sideways when his concentration lapsed. M2 to the rescue but M1 stayed at the wheel for the final 30 mins as we stumbled our way after a 500 km drive to a campsite just east of Talavera at Cazalegas. Set in a beautiful lakeland area, this could only be described as a shanty town. However, we were in no mood to try to find anywhere else and decided to settle on this scruffy, dirty and unappealing site against our better judgement. To cap it all, in trying to find the best parking place of a bad bunch, M1 failed to remember how tall the vehicle was, nudged the overhanging branch of an olive tree to EMU’s disadvantage. A taxying incident of great embarassment. What would Tanner have said? Having extricated from that situation, everything about the site was tatty with last year’s rubbish, fag ends abounding, the inevitable dog pound and rudimentary facilities. Everywhere looked more like Soweto than Soweto as it was a caravan graveyard. Deeply depressing, especially the squalid conditions that were allowed to exist for a number of dogs and puppies and two ponies. We both felt that this was a low point not to be repeated and that we should get out of Cazalegas as quickly as we could.
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