A couple of days since the last update

It's now Sunday 17th July we are now well into France, we left Sort on Friday morning and headed for the south coast of France and the Mediterranian Sea. Sainte Marie was our coastal destination, and we arrived at lunchtime, had a paddle in the med, and following this headed inland to Milau and across the iconic bridge. Along the N75 leaving in time to go to the Gorges Du Tarn where we spent the night at a comfy site before moving on along the gorge and then across country to the museum of resistance and then on to Le Puy Envelay. Today Sunday we spent as tourists in the city visiting the Madonna and the church of Saint Michelle. Tomorrow it's on to the Allier Valley, to find a campsite as a base to go canoeing along the river.

Andorra and the smuggler route

Well it's Friday 15th July, yesterday we travelled across the border into the principality of Andorra. A tax free shopping area, filled up our tanks with diesel at 85 cents a litre, did some shopping and the spent some time at the spa. The by the evening it saw us planning the exit over the mountains via the old smuggler route. The track was very bumpy and narrow with large ruts until you reached the high peaks at which point it opened up and the surface became smoother. An excellent route with two river crossings and some very steep drops at the side of the road. It took nearly three hours to get back to the campsite which was followed by an excellent meal at the local restaurant with a couple of jugs of sangria to help wash it down. Today it's time to leave our campsite at Sort and move on towards France and the coast.

To the edge of Andorra

After a really, no I mean really really windy night, an no it wasn't Tracy, where none of us slept it was on to some fabulous roads the last section off road down to a beautiful lake and on to our campsite for the next couple of nights. We are making our
base in Salt ready for our excursions into Andorra tomorrow, and off road into France for the next part of the adventure on Friday. Now time for G&T.

More pyrenees fun

Today started very windy the campsite is just below the mountain range we will be driving over today, and the wind hotels up the valley. First it's off to Loarre via a dirt road to visit Castillo de Loarre then a twenty mile off road circuit including a bridge across a chasm with no fence or edge and two dam crossings. Tomorrow we are off towards Andorra and hope to cover about 150 miles, then it's off road again for another 50 miles to the campsite about twenty miles from the border with Andorra. I will leave you with a couple of pictures from today.

The next adventure

Three days ago saw us embark on our next adventure. We had spent many weeks planning and preparing both the Land Rover and trailer. 27 hours on the ferry saw us arrive in Santander northern Spain on Sunday lunchtime. The afternoon was spent driving down the coast to St Jean Piedmont design port. A beautiful ancient walled market town well worth a visit if your in the area.

One night in the municipal campsite with ferocious thunderstorm and rain we woke to a pleasant day with warm sunshine. After stocking up on fuel and supplies it was off into the mountains. Sixty miles of some of the best views I have ever seen followed and some excellent off road tracks, after reaching our halfway point and finding one of the tracks closed to motor vehicles we diverted and headed for the campsite for the night. A quick swim and dinner followed by some very cheap but quite tasty vino it was off to bed as the wind was getting up.

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