Boxing Day and we move on from the family festivities and head towards Spain. The first 2 hours of the drive through the Perigord is fine, but after Bordeaux we have to go through a part of France called the Landes, which is the most boring drive in France. A couple of hundred years ago some bright spark decided the only way they could stop the Atlantic continually flooding the land was to plant pine trees on the sandy soil, it worked creating what is probably one of the best beaches in the world, it runs from Bordeaux to the Spanish border over 200klm but as for driving it all you see is pine trees, small ones, big ones, piles of cut ones, miles after boring miles, all in dead straight lines standing to attention. When you get to the border it changes and you enter the Basque Country which is magnificent, hills, valley's, rivers, a total change. No pics I'm afraid just after we crossed the border the mist came down followed by rain.
We stopped for the night in a small town called Miranda del Ebro at a converted convent, Hospederia el Convento and what a surprise, the room with breakfast 48€. The evening meal was 19€ with wine and was 7 courses! We gave up after 5 completely stuffed. When in Canada and the U.S. We struggled with the five pm dinners. Spain is evan stranger dinner starts at 9pm.
After breakfast which they eat at the normal time of 8 to 9 am we headed of on the second stage of our journey to Zamora about 300klm yesterday we travelled around 550klm.
Arriving around12:30 we decided we would have lunch and give the evening meal a miss. Lunch in Spain is taken from 2pm we were in the restarant on the dot nobody else arrived till around 3pm as we were just finishing up, a different way of life it surely is. I had pasta and prawns to start Ruth marinated salmon. The photographer not quite on the job here. Will try and do better.
Main course roasted veal for Ruth, Iberian tournedos for me.
Ruth had the tiramisu and I had the rice pudding. Then like the rest of Spain we had a siesta.Tomorrow we move on into Portugal.
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