We caught a ferry from Dover on a wet, windy December morning to Dunkirk where the weather was pretty similar! We spent the next 3 days driving through France as quickly as we could stopping overnight in small towns en route. Much of France was very flat with ditches instead of hedges, we saw lots of wind turbines and mistletoe as we travelled through the countryside . By Wednesday we decided to spend less time travelling and do some 
sightseeing. We drove from our overnight stop to Biarritz and parked up on the sea front, we spent a couple of hours wandering around this nice coastal town, albeit very quiet in December.
sightseeing. We drove from our overnight stop to Biarritz and parked up on the sea front, we spent a couple of hours wandering around this nice coastal town, albeit very quiet in December.We then drove the short distance from Biarritz to Hendaye (the last French town on the west coast) and parked up at an Aire with half a dozen other motorhomes, 
we‘ve started to see more motorhomes over the last couple of days. On Thursday we drive the few miles into Spain and take the coast road which takes us through forests and mountains and lots of lovely scenery. We’re now getting short of LPG (which we use for heating, cooking and the fridge) and wish that we’d filled up in France, luckily the weather has been milder the last couple of days so we’ve not needed to put the heater on in the evening. Hopefully we’ll find somewhere that sells LPG tomorrow, before we completely run out! We’ve now clocked up just over 1000 miles since leaving Shropshire a week ago.
On Friday we drove to the centre of Bilbao and drove round in circles in an attempt to park as we wanted to visit the Guggenheim museum, we gave up in the end as nowhere seemed suitable to park a motorhome. We drove on through Spain towards Portugal and directed the sat nav to the one place along our route that sold LPG. We arrived at 4pm to find it was closed, we eventually used various books to write down some questions in Spanish and took our scribbles into the business next door, no-one spoke English but they helped and showed me the Repsol website showing that it should be open until 8pm. We’ve decided to stay in this town (Valladolid) for the night and try again tomorrow as it’s apparently open from 9pm - 2pm. We’ve had lots of sunshine during our drive today, so hopefully that will continue. Hopefully we should reach Portugal at some point tomorrow and in another couple of days we should get to the coast.
we‘ve started to see more motorhomes over the last couple of days. On Thursday we drive the few miles into Spain and take the coast road which takes us through forests and mountains and lots of lovely scenery. We’re now getting short of LPG (which we use for heating, cooking and the fridge) and wish that we’d filled up in France, luckily the weather has been milder the last couple of days so we’ve not needed to put the heater on in the evening. Hopefully we’ll find somewhere that sells LPG tomorrow, before we completely run out! We’ve now clocked up just over 1000 miles since leaving Shropshire a week ago.On Friday we drove to the centre of Bilbao and drove round in circles in an attempt to park as we wanted to visit the Guggenheim museum, we gave up in the end as nowhere seemed suitable to park a motorhome. We drove on through Spain towards Portugal and directed the sat nav to the one place along our route that sold LPG. We arrived at 4pm to find it was closed, we eventually used various books to write down some questions in Spanish and took our scribbles into the business next door, no-one spoke English but they helped and showed me the Repsol website showing that it should be open until 8pm. We’ve decided to stay in this town (Valladolid) for the night and try again tomorrow as it’s apparently open from 9pm - 2pm. We’ve had lots of sunshine during our drive today, so hopefully that will continue. Hopefully we should reach Portugal at some point tomorrow and in another couple of days we should get to the coast.
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