Why? A very good question with no satisfactory answer.
The weather can only improve and there is some evidence that next week will be a little warmer in Spain. Rainfall for 2018 in some regions has been 250% when compared to normal years – I think it followed us!
A cool start to the day and we were on the road by 10:30, direction Santa Elena. A small town / village near Jaen (North of Granada and about 130 miles South of Madrid), bordering the Despenaperros area of natural beauty.
Weather warnings for wind were in place for parts of our journey and on several sections of the motorway, we reduced our speed to barely 40mph, the wind buffeting our wobbly box with menace.
Arriving at Camping Despenaperros just before 14:00, the village is living up to it’s name – the temperature with wind-chill is below zero and father Christmas could appear at any time. The campsite is functional but more than a little bleak and whilst some of the facilities are somewhat dated, it’s all clean and most pitches appear to have mains water and grey waste.
Our pitch at Camping Despanaperros…
In need of a shower, and given the inclement weather, I made use of our on-board shower for the first time in the three years we have owned this caravan!
One of the “facilities” at Camping Despenaperros…
Whilst we were expecting only to camp here for the night, storm Hugo is arriving across the Bay of Biscay barrelling into Spain on Saturday morning with areas of significant snowfall and winds gusting at nearly 100 km/h. We have therefore decided to delay our departue (destination Camping Riaza) for a further 24 hours to allow the storm to pass through.