From Chevanceaux to Óbidos. A stop over in Donostia-San Sebastian.
On Wednesday we said goodbye to Mairead, and James, Finley, Isaac, and Ruby. Mairead came over to help finish the lemon tart I made two days previous, which everyone ,but Ben, enjoyed. (He thought it tasted metallic).
We got on the road at 5:20, and went to about 7:30, then we stopped for an hour, ate a pasta salad we had prepared for dinner, and then continued on till about 10:00 when we stopped at a B&B Hotel in Donostia-San Sebastian for the night. That was about 350 km covered that night. We woke up at 7:00 and got a buffet breakfast (have I mentioned I love buffet breakfasts? [So much chocolate stuff!])!
We hit the road at 8:10, and drove for a couple hours, when, for a toll, we slowed down and the trailer started squeaking. Mom and Dad fiddled with the brake and it fixed it for the time being. Another couple hours later, we checked on it again and it was squeaking, but they fiddled with the brake and it was fixed again. This happened several times more and every time it was fixed with a quick fiddle of the brakes. At round 1:00, we stopped at a motorway services station and grabbed a few long thin breads that do not deserve the name ‘Baguettes’. Continuing along we got to Portugal. Portugal is hillier than most of the part of Spain that we had driven through, and greener. We stopped for dinner (just sandwiches) eventually. After 12 hours of driving that day, and 891kms, we had finally reached Óbidos. Our house. I’ll explain why that says 11h 20 min and I said that just the second day took 12 hours — we take 50% longer than Google’s estimate, because of the trailer.
