Woke up to a nice morning, finished packing things away and said our goodbyes to Paul, Tracey, Iain & Anne as well as Travis their Gordon setter. Swopped email addresses with Paul and Tracey so we can let them know of any good places in Portugal as they are following on in a couple of weeks.
Had a good run up to Jerez, countryside still fairly flat for Spanish standards and the roads very good. In desperate need of LPG so that was first on the agenda. Didn’t see the road number we were looking for as our exit off the toll road (hadn’t had to pay so far?), and soon realised we had gone too far. Came off and stopped at a petrol station for some Diesel, where we met an English guy who knew the area and could at least tell us where we were. From that we quickly found our way back to the correct junction and came off, from there we recognised the roads etc from googlemap and easily found the repsol depot down a small lane. Feeling very chuffed with ourselves we pulled up to the gas pump and an attendant came over to fill us up. He checked our system and fitted an attachment before beginning to fill the tanks, but nothing happened it wouldn’t take any! He scratched his head tried again but no luck. He showed us that the pump and attachment were working but it wasn’t with our system. I tried one of our attachments but still no luck! The gas seemed to be getting from the nozzle through the attachment but not through the inlet valve on our system? Nothing we could do there so we left. We have been told Spain have adopted a European attachment which no one else uses yet! So it could be that.
Set off for Seville and again had a good journey, toll road was only 6 euros (the guy charged us the car rate, good man!) and we made good progress. Easily found the campsite as we recognised the junctions and buildings from google map, despite the removal of a road bridge where we would have crossed, and being replaced with a roundabout. The campsite has small pitches so we spent some time trying to find one we could get to and fit on. In the end we decided to try one of the first ones and park Bella at an angle across the pitch. As we walked back to get the van a caravan was parked outside reception, blocking everything, then a motorhome pulled in as well. I got Bella from where we had parked her and pulled in behind the caravan. It then became obvious all three of us wanted the first pitches on the left. The caravan pulled up to them only to find Sarah standing in the middle, she confirmed that we were going into that one and gave them the “Don’t mess with me I’m from Essex!” look. It worked and they begrudgingly pulled forward. The other motorhome had followed us in and was waiting for us to fail to get into the pitch! He admitted to Lynn he didn’t think we would get onto the pitch, but we did somehow, much to our relief!
After a quick lunch we walked to a Carrefour and bought a few bits for dinner and located the bus stop for tomorrow’s trip into Seville. It looks nice and historical and I’ve found a suggested walk around the old part so I’m looking forward to it! Promised the girls a meal out so they’re happy as well!
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