Getting ahead of ourselves

Montagut

Weather:  Getting a crick in the neck looking for the next patch of blue sky

So what’s going on?  Spanish sun, German engineering, what’s going to go wrong next?!

Enjoying our little campsite at Albarracin but the tap in our Gourmet Centre went wrong.  So we found a Dethleff dealer not too far away and the receptionist at the campsite called them for us to say we would be going there the next day.  Early start and off to Zaragoza.  Not too despondent as we were going to visit the town at some point.  However once we located the garage and fought our way in through the gale that was blowing our expectations began to drop.  As David noticed, the Dethleff manuals were still to be unpacked (that’s the edited version of what he actually said).  So after about 45 mins of nothing much happening the guy said he didn’t have the part we needed and called a dealer in a place called something like Monserat a 3.5 hr drive away.  Off we went again. 

Our lunch stop was in a very inferior carpark to the one at Planet Carrefour in Benidorm.  Made worse by the fact that a trailer full of pigs had stopped in the same car park.  I made David move further away before he ate his ham sandwich.  We passed several lorry loads of lovely fat pigs obviously destined to become Iberian hams.

 Spirits lifted at the 2^nd dealer.  Mega place with loads of Dethleffs.  But guy went into parts department and returned to say they didn’t have the part!  He looked at our faces and agreed to call another dealer.  This one was near Girona, which is where we were meant to head for next week. 

Not sure in what way they thought this was an enticing place to stop for a drink!

David was too tired to go on and we couldn’t have got there before the mechanics went home so we stopped in an aire.  The idea is that the town provides free or very cheap overnight parking for motor homes and in return you go and spend your tourist euros in town.  So we were obliged to leave the very nice aire to walk into town and have a couple of beers.  Tough life.

Next to the aire was a playground with a small but very exciting climbing frame.  This notice was a map of the climbing equipment.  But I took the photo because there was no graffiti!! 

I don't do rocks and water!

Things looked up today when we arrived at the Girona dealer.  They were expecting us and there was a café right next to the garage so we could have second breakfast while they fixed the tap.  The café owner obviously felt challenged by an order of toast and tried to offer us various toppings.  We asked for butter.  Not sure what we got but it tasted a little like fried bread with sugar on top.  No matter, the van was fixed and we have driven on to a lovely campsite back up in the mountains, and even better, the weather forecast is looking up!!