Eurotrip 8, 2020 – Day 67, Lockdown day 6…

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It’s time to head for the border. We leave Camping La Rosaleda at 08:30 for our 380 mile drive to Salamanca. It’s an uneventful journey, traffic is light and is essentially freight and returning caravanners and motorhomers.

There’s a large Guardia presence all along the route but we aren’t harrassed.

Guardia monitoring the motorways

We arrive at Camping Olympia mid afternoon and it’s chaos with people attemping to stay here. There are only around 40 places and anyone without a reservation is turned away.

Nerves are frayed as news comes from the “advance party” that they can’t find anywhere to stop en-route from Bordeaux to Tours as all Aires and Truck stops are closed. An interesting day ahead tomorrow and still some 900 miles to go before we reach Dieppe. And fingers crossed the ferry actually operates on Monday.

Looked to book a Tunnel crossing as a backup but no availability until 23rd April. This is looking increasingly challenging as restrictions everywhere become even more draconian.

A few pictures from Camping Olympia. It’s a perfectly serviceable stopover site…

Our “convoy” of 4 caravans in the picture
View across the front on Camping Olympia
And the view from our caravan…