{"id":2602,"date":"2018-03-25T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2018-03-25T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T17:05:34","slug":"eurotrip-7-2018-day-57-a1-madrid-to-burgos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 7, 2018 \u2013 Day 57, A1 Madrid to Burgos&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very pleasant start to the day with the sun shining but still a cold nip presides over Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The heated shower blocks were fully utilised before our 11:00am departure &#8211; heading Burgos.<\/p>\n<p>A fairly un-eventful journey, arriving at Camping Fuentes Blancas near to Burgos around 15:30 which included a long stop for lunch at around the half way point. Snow was forecast and although we didn&#8217;t see any on the roads, there were manned snow ploughs at many of the service areas in preparation for adverse weather.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2598\" style=\"width: 687px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_123400_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_123400_01-1024x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_123400_01-1024x368.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_123400_01-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_123400_01-768x276.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_123400_01-767x276.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madrid to Burgos &#8211; snow is anticipated&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Camping Fuentes Blancas at Burgos looks a great stopover site. It&#8217;s very busy with travellers heading both North and South. The washroom facilities are ok (not heated which is a shame) but the main campsite looks a little neglected. The electrics are in dire need of replacement and the pitches could use some care and attention.<\/p>\n<p>It is though a municipal site so maybe that explains it&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2603\" style=\"width: 687px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_182256-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_182256-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_182256-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_182256-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_182256-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180325_182256-1-767x575.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Pitch (44 or 45) at Camping Fuentes Blancas&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We should have time to visit the Cathedral at Burgos in the morning before our final night in Spain this spring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very pleasant start to the day with the sun shining but still a cold nip presides over Madrid. The heated shower blocks were fully utilised before our 11:00am departure &#8211; heading Burgos. A fairly un-eventful journey, arriving at Camping Fuentes Blancas near to Burgos around 15:30 which included a long stop for lunch at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=2602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eurotrip 7, 2018 \u2013 Day 57, A1 Madrid to Burgos&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-europe-spain","category-2018-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}