Lilly the Land Yacht - August 20, 2018

August 20, 201843 17.84307N 1 58.22510W

Here we are in San Sebastian, having driven all the way across the north coast of Spain from west to east in the last two days. What a spectacular coast! Windswept craggy rocks with sandy coves dotted along the shore with steep mountains plummeting down to the waters edge. The road follows the coast for much of the journey and it is a very pretty drive. Mountains soaring up to over 2000 meters high, driving through valleys and gorges following rivers and then through tunnels and coming out on the other side with amazing vistas of cliffs and sea! Waves tumbling and smashing against rocks, pine forests clinging to hillsides at impossible angles. Pretty towns nestled in to the side of mountains or cupped by beaches on the sea shore. Fabulous! And very busy. The beaches are packed with people and the car parks are jammed full. The water is too cold to swim in, but still people flock to the beach, dragging sun umbrellas, beach chairs, towels, chilli bins, picnic food, gigantic blow up flamingos and unicorns as big as a bus, with a band of kids, to enjoy a day at the beach. In the afternoon they drag their sun-drenched bodies and sandy children home for a siesta before it all starts again about 5pm with another trek to the beach. We kept on driving. And now here we are, at San Sebastián, the last major city before we reach the French border. We will explore this city tomorrow and do some essential things like a hair cut for Heather and another visit to the dentist for Karl. While we were in Portugal we got used to all the shops being open 7 days a week, just like they are in NZ, but in Spain and France, everything is shut in the weekend, especially on Sunday, so tomorrow being Monday we will attack our list of things to do. This will include stocking up on certain items that are much cheaper in Spain than in France! We are still enjoying endless sunshine wherever we go. The south eastern part of Spain has recently had torrential rain, flooding, hail storms and gale force winds, but we have not seen a drop of rain since we were in Almeria on the 6th June and that was only a short shower of half an hour. We have been lucky with the weather so far, today is it glorious sunshine and 26 degrees. Perfect! Rain is forecast for the end of the week, but wait and see.

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