After leaving Zaragoza another boring journey across open landscape, rocky hilly and sandy terrain
Little traffic most of the way on this new motorway.
As we approached the south coast the population and traffic became denser.
I began to have a feeling we were not going in the right direction, but I had no cause to doubt the Sat Nav that had not previously taken us to the door of our destinations.
Until that is, we were at our destination( Ref Sat Nav)in the middle of an unmade road in the middle of a wine field.
Absolutely no one around, absolutely barren.
Lost In A strange country.
Decision time, I had already spent more time driving that anticipated.
Retracing our steps back onto the motorway in the direction we had already come I came off at a service station to refill and also ask directions to the address I had.
Several points of reference was made, it was approximately 50 miles back in the direction I had already came.
Oh! Blow and Frustration.
Following the directions we eventually came within the region that was listed on our destination address.
Stopped reset the Sat Nav and continued.
This is where our holiday becomes interesting.
A strong smell began to permeate the car, burning,
The meters were all as normal; suddenly the ABS light came on.
Decision time, the hard shoulder was very narrow, as was the motorway.
If I pulled over there was a good chance the caravan or myself would be involved in an accident with the heavy lorries that were rushing by.
The running gear seemed to ok, so I proceeded with caution.
As we neared our destination the Sat Nav us took off the now ‘A” type road and along some lanes.
Time was progressing dusk was appearing in the sky and I felt a need for urgency.
More lanes and getting more narrow, I turned a bend to see an elderly couple walking leisurely in the middle of the road and were startled when I came into view.
He frantically waved his hands, and I stopped.
He spoke no English but indicated I could go no farther there was no exit.
Typically a car squeezed by after I had moved over as far as I could.
Some more hand waving and sign language, I tried to reverse my Caravan.
Impossible, so I unhitched and with some struggling and help from the Spaniard I turn the caravan around on the slope re-hooked, bade our farewells and retraced my steps.
Reset the Sat Nav and continued my journey bearing in mind I did not know where I was in this foreign land and could not speak a word of their language.
More narrow lanes and traffic that was amazed to see a caravan as they squeezed by with furtive glances.
Came to a junction of a wider road, waited for traffic to clear and progressed from this narrow Lane.
BANG! Oh no what have I hit; I opened the door thinking I had hit a post, or something, NO, and then I saw the reason.
The Drivers side wheel of the caravan had ridden over a cover on the gully and collapsed, the wheel was in the gully.
My car was projecting into the road and stopping what little traffic there was.
Don’t panic, I put the car into 4-wheel drive, success I pulled the caravan out and proceeded on my journey.
Back onto the main road, turn Right it said, down to the end of the road and out onto the beach, it was now really dusk, I was tired and wanted to park up but Sandra wanted to carry on.
Turn right again on next turning, I then decided to Phone the site owner.
He spoke some English gave me Sat Nave details and also a description of where the site was.
After several stops showing the address to pedestrians (They all stank of Garlic)
I eventually got to site, It was now dark I nearly cried with relief, I had been on the road since 10.30am it was now 18.30pm.
As I was in reception cars started blowing their horns.
Locals wanted a drink in the Taverna.
He said go and park your caravan and come back to register.
Remember it was dark; it was also a wooded site with little light penetrating the trees.
I continued in a straight line and came to a halt, could not go and farther, it was dark and very difficult to reverse.
Stood outside my car considering the alternatives when suddenly two guys appeared offing to help.
Great, caravan unhooked and moving into a tight spot.
Where had these guys come from? Were they genuine or would they be in my Car or Caravan.
It resolved that they were genuine.
Wow, what a day, all I wanted was to relax and have an English Beer, fortunately I had brought some for occasions like this.
Sandra was not happy about the car, the ABS had gone off when we were in the Lane with the Spaniard but she was not confident it would last for the rest of our Holiday so I approached the site owner and he suggested a garage 2 miles away.
He was expecting us when we arrived; the following day,I was to take it back the following day for inspection and comments.
On arriving back at site Dave Seaward had arrived.
I must admit it was nice seeing their smiling faces and warm words of comfort after I explained our predicaments of the last 24 Hours.
We decide for a walk along the beach and then into a Taverna for some refreshment
A long walk back exploring other parts.
In the evening we had a meal in the local restaurant that was quite nice, relaxing and also very inexpensive.
A Nightcap in Dave’s Motorhome and so to bed.
David decided to come with me to the garage.
It was decide the garage would inspect the damage, order the spares.
We walked into La Verger, very lonely; David considered everyone was at work.
Couple cups of coffee catch up on Wi Fi; walk around town and back to the garage.
He would order spares, we would move onto our next site (85 Miles away) and return the car when the spares arrived. Simple enough (Oh no)!
In the evening we decided to walk to the local currently fashionable Japanese Sushi restaurant, all you can eat for 12 Euros.
The young waitress was efficient in her knowledge of the food but got little irritated with me when I did not understand her Japanese / Spanish / English explanations of the various dishes.
Anyway we proceeded. Somewhat unusual to what I normally eat, but we were on Holiday.
Various types of fish, lots wrapped in paper type of Seaweed, some rice, sauce etc. all eaten with my fingers.
Did not want to use chopsticks, I think I would have made more of a mess than I did.
Dave and Maggs were moving on to their next destination and so left site late morning and we were to follow later moving onto our site for the next two weeks.
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