Spain

These last few days have been very cold and we have been doing a lot of driving. After leaving Lourdes in Frances we spent a lot of time at McDonalds on the internet. While at McDonalds it rained and snowed but melted as soon as it hit the ground. We got bored as we were stuck in the camper. We did have stunning views of the Pyrenees mountains out the window. Before we went into Spain we got some advent calendars. We crossed into Spain by the Atlantic coast so we didn’t have to worry about going over the mountains and getting snowed in or slipping on ice. Our first experience in Spain was accidentally getting on a toll road and we spent 150km guessing how much the trip was going to cost. It wasn’t to bad 12 euros and it saved us a lot of time and stress. The roads cut straight through every hill and there were viaducts over every valley. Looks like a big road compared to the ones in New Zealand.


After taking the toll road we found a little area to stay at but it was lonely with out other campers. We got up early the next day and took free motorways along with hundreds of trucks heading south west. It was like driving on the moon. There were zero trees and a whole lots of dirt paddocks topped with a thin layer on snow. Some of the towns looked camouflage. As we had run out of cornflakes we fried up some potatoes, tomatoes and scrambled eggs for Brunch at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Then went shopping at a supermarket in a big town. We stayed the night at a petrol station with some French, Spanish and Portuguese trucks. Today we went to a big shopping centre in Salamanca and started doing some Christmas shopping. We are all buying each other a small gift which not many other kids get to do because they don’t have 5 brothers and sisters. It was fun trying to find each other special gifts.

Then we drove towards Portugal. In the distance we could see white mountains. As soon as we entered Portugal it started to snow but melted when it hit the ground. The landscape changed again to rocky and tundra like with lots of small evergreen trees but at least now there are houses and farms.