Day 85 and soon our enforced allocation of 90 days in the EU will have expired. Just as the weather is starting to get very warm with the last few daytime highs around the mid 20s and very pleasant to sit outside during the evening.

We had an early start today and were on the road at precisely 08:00. We had a number of options for a stopover site – Camping Arco Iris or Aranjeuz or Riaza in the Madrid area but in the end we drove all the way to Camping El Astral in Tordesillas, a distance of 405 miles and an elapsed time of 8.5 hours which included a pause for lunch and one other stop. Traffic was light until we arrived at the metropolis of Madrid.

We will stay two nights here and then find a site in Santander for Tuesday night, in preparation for our ferry crossing on Wednesday.

Our journey so far…