Friday 6 March 2009

Salamanca


Spent today sight seeing in Salamanca, a beautiful city with buildings from the 14th and 15th centuries. Ready for a day off after 3 days on the road, and 1,100 miles behind us. Today dry but cool, not disimilar to the UK.
Fairly uneventful drive down apart from the diabolical weather. We've had high winds, rain, hail, and snow. Passing south of Bordeaux we saw the damage caused by recent high winds, with mile after mile of fallen trees.
The only moan we have is about the van, not the caravan part, but the Fiat bit. When it rains heavily the wipers sweep water to the driver's side, where it then runs like a river across the driver's side window, completely obscuring the view of the rear view mirror. That makes overtaking tricky! A new trick we have seen for the first time. In heavy winds the wing mirrors get blown in during strong gusts, but this time the winds were actually distorting the front van doors to the point where the interior light came on, expecting we were opening them. What can we say apart from Fiat "touch where it fits" engineering.
Tomorrow heading south again to Ronda or Marbella, hoping for more warmth and sun.

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