Another cold grey start with occasional showers that didn’t
really improve all day. Again avoiding the motorway we negotiated our way
through Bayonne, Biarritz and St Jean de Luc before crossing into Spain at
Irun. We've looked at this before and come to the conclusion that it would be
overall more economical to just use the peage so that’s what we’ll do in
future.
Fortunately the roads in Spain are much better, well in that
they are dualled and often motorway standard without ever having to use the
autopistas, which are toll. Mind you they are considerably cheaper than France,
but it’s the principle of the thing!
Pulled off once to see about a comfort stop, but it was only
a fuel station so we took the decision to just keep going to our planned
destination which was Vitoria, also known as Gastieze , which is the Basque
capital. We stopped here last year and it’s a good overnighter, although the
water was off. There is a market on Wednesday morning which the aires book
warned us about, although it did not forbid use of the aire. We’ll see if we’re
trapped tomorrow!
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