Eurotrip 8, 2020 – Day 66, Lockdown day 5 (am)…

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A quick update from Camping Rosaleda. Busy day ahead readying for our departure tomorrow. This is the planned route.

Long road to Blighty

The Spanish government has announced all hotels must close by the 24th March and all visitors to Spain should return home. The classification of campsites as long-stay / short-stay seems to be confusing as to whether people will be allowed to remain. The messsage seems fairly clear though – get out while you can.

There are four of us intending to travel in convoy which should improve security when we are forced to wild-camp.

Couple of “information” pieces here. Just over 2 weeks ago, this site was a bustling metropolis with probably over 1000 here. Every pitch was taken and all the bungalows were occupied for Andalusian weekend. There must be 350 camping pitches and 60 bungalows in total.

Yesterday, we counted 70 pitches still occupied and perhaps about 20 bungalows. It takes 50 minutes to walk up and down each road of the campsite and this adds some 6000 steps to our fitbits…