Leon

4th March
Ahhh, the noise outside. It is 7.45am and it sounds as if there is market being set up. Too cold still to get up and check. We will wait a little while. More cars arrive, more chatting. No female voices. I raise the blind one inch and to my horror there are hundreds of trail motorbikes all sitting upright on stands all over the car park and also surrounding Wishstream. One is 6 inches away. There are also loads of cars with trailers holding more bikes and one of them has parked right in front of us and another in the small gap we left between us and the corner of the sports hall.

So it's up and out with the dogs, fighting our way through young men all dressed as Evil Knevil. The area where we would normally fill up and empty our grey water had been commandeered by the Guardia Civil, so forget that. We start up and inch forward and backward until a couple of the lads realise what is happening and helpfully move a few bikes for us. Eventually we squeeze out and park up down the road to sort ourselves out. Oh well, at least it has got us up and on the road early.

Making for Leon today. Cold but sunny start and then we start climbing into the clouds, and in fact I think we are now in them.







Maybe this early start lark is not such a great idea. Wait for the sun to burn bait of the bad weather off.

We are going to Leon because there is an Aire there which is along our way. There are only 6 places and when we get there there are about 20 vans all parked up in normal paying places. We join them and find that because it is Sunday there is no charge there anyway. A smart, clean place by the river. Jc set off to find provisions. There were none. Everything is closed as it is Sunday. But other than Belgian Buns or their substitutes, we have provisions and will survive.

Around 19.00 hours Jc was looking for a beer and headed out alone. At 17.10 all of the motorhomes bar one moved out leaving me home alone and wondering if the tow away truck was on its way. When Jc got back, I hustled him into the van quickly, started up and moved to one of the now vacant official slots so we could sleep easy.


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