Spain Trek

Spain Trek

Across the Iberian Peninsula  , a thousand kms, 12 hours, with nap stops and 2 refills of diesel.

Bit of a trek yes, starts  when adios to British Shores courtesy of Brittany Ferries and the Pont Aven, 600 passengers with  vehicles, 150 crew at 25 knots. The boat has stabilisers but most passengers walk round as if they had a few to drink. Shops, cinemas, bars, restaurant , entertainment, Dolphins swim by in their hundreds. 10 decks, poor dogs are put in caged kennels on the penthouse deck, windy windy.

Santander in Northern Spain is blessed with first stop for Atlantic winds weather, yes cloud and rain. in fact the rain in Spain falls mainly on the mountains and in the north, not on the plains George (he thought she'd got it)

Once traversed, the snow capped mountains, reveal the plains and the sun, not the rain, and the clouds are left behind. Very green north, very rocky interior and south.

Spain has lots of wind turbines on windy rocky hill tops and solar farms in rocky slopes. Traffic is sparse, except  around Madrid where El Torro drives and swerves from lane to lane as lanes to destinations continually switch, el dodgeo !

So Blue skies and palm trees with pink pavements are found at the end of a long and winding road, A67, N627, A1, A3, A31, N332  and all new roads mainly  some going as high as 8,000 ft  and some viaducts  also with towns far below, like ants.