Wednesday, October 10, 2012


Saturday 6 October 2012 San Sebastian Spain to Navarrenx in France.

Up early for us, breakfast at 8 am with Javier at hotel and on road north out of San Sebastian by 8.45 am. Still sun rising over Pyrenees straight into my eyes making driving a bit difficult initially as we headed east.

Temperature when leaving San Sebastian was 22 degrees, but within 1 hour of heading inland from coast this had dropped to 12 degrees as we climbed a bit. However by the time we arrived in Navarrenx it was back into the low 20’s.

Easy 2 hour drive to Beau Rivage Camping Ground in Navarrenx where we have a Chalet booked for the rest of our stay in France for €185 for whole week.

Chalet is sort of one room, about 4m x 4m with toilet in one corner  and a small kitchen at one end with sink, fridge, hot plate and microwave,  basic set of kitchen equipment and small table. Windows and shutters on front and back walls.

There is a little deck about 1.5 m wide along the front which looks south so sun comes into deck in middle of day and another table and 2 chairs out there. The deck looks over a grove of trees beside a river just below. Sound of water rushing over stones is very relaxing along with cicadas singing.

Showers/laundry are up by office building by front gate. This is the last week of their season then they close until next summer. There are tent sites and caravan /RV sites here with about 10 occupied at the moment, lots of English people here.

In late afternoon we went for walk around village and got as far as first bar where we met Richard owner of campground plus Stuart and another pommie guy. Had couple of beers and talked to them and watched a little bit of local rugby (Toulon vs Biarritz –Jonny Wilkinson plays for one of the teams) on TV in Bar. Whole team of young rugby players arrived at watch the TV game obviously just after they had played. Rugby quite big in this area of France

Lamb chops, peas, leaks and potatoes for dinner cooked on the 2 electric ring sin cabin.

 

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