Wednesday 22 March 2017

Palmones to Caceres - 281 miles

Up earlyish to a bright sunny morning as we're hoping to get a good days driving in today. After breakfast said bye-bye to Derek and June who are going north east to continue their holiday, then as we'd no clearing up or servicing to do hit the road ourselves shortly after. It's motorway all the way today routing past Jerez de la Frontera, around Seville then north toward Salamanca with only one toll section which cost us €7.20, not bad and not worth trying to route round, so we managed to keep up a good average.

North of Seville we made a quick lunch stop at a service area then shortly afterwards it started to rain, becoming quite heavy for a while then showery. We'd originally planned to stop at Zafra but were doing so well we thought we'd try for Caceres, a place we thought we might have stopped at before but couldn't place it from the picture in the book. So as the sun came out TomTom navigated us through Caceres and onto the aire – oh yes, that one. With only 10 poorly spaced places already filled it had overspilled onto the adjacent coach park and car park, not good so we had a rethink.

Camper Contact, one of our databases, came up with a campsite a little way out of town so we decided to give it a try. Camping Caceres is a very nice site with full facilities including private bathroom on each pitch (eat your heart out Caravan Club, sorry it's now called Caravan and Motorhome Club) and was also part of the ACSI scheme so we got a good discount too. A nice pitch however a strong cold wind got up, followed shortly by a sharp rain shower both of which later dried up leaving a clear but now decidedly cold evening.

Tea then showers, screens up and heating on, we settled down to a quiet evening. We're only stopping one night as we need to get some serious miles under the wheels. Today has been the furthest we've travelled in one day the entire trip.