Rain showers during the night but Easter Sunday started dry
and sunny for us. For no apparent reason it took us ages to get going but as
there was a queue for the service point we just emptied the loo and waste tank
manually. We are carrying 20 extra litres of water in plastic bottles so not
too bothered.
With initially a rough target north of Bordeaux, we set the
satnav to get us round San Sebastion and into Spain – the roads around here can
be very confusing and on more than one occasion we found we were turning back
on ourselves but we managed.
We've found that the border area is always busy but today it
was worse than ever and despite us saying we’ll use the toll road, we never
actually do so a slow traverse until we cleared Bayonne. The new motorway has
been completed up to Bordeaux which has swallowed up the old N10 making it
almost impractical now to avoid tolls so we gave in and set the cruise control
for a nice steady run. It turned out not to be too expensive though.
Lunch at a motorway service area whilst we planned our night
stop. There are quite a few aires north of Bordeaux but as it is still a public
holiday in France tomorrow we looked for something a little out of the way and
decided on a nice looking spot at St Christoly de Blaye, just off the Gironde.
TomTom did his bit again and we arrived at a very pleasant woodland lakeside
picnic area that is obviously popular with the locals. Two marked motorhome
bays were empty so after checking round to make sure we were in the right spot
(the coordinates put us a couple of hundred yards away in a restaurant carpark)
we settled down in the warm late afternoon sun.
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