South we go!

Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th December 2023.

We have started our trip to spend Christmas and New Year in the Valencia region of Spain.

We set off on Monday in fine weather and had an easy journey down to Portsmouth where again the Brittany Ferries curse got us.The girl in the check in booth refused to accept Layla’s Pet Passport saying there was a stamp missing, nothing I said helped so I had to trek to the main desk in the terminal where the man who looked at the passport said it wasn’t a major problem we just had to travel at our own risk???? I’ve no idea what he was on about, we never have any trouble anywhere else only Brittany Ferries at Portsmouth, in fact at Dover in April they didn’t want to look at the passport the girl said” she’s obviously your dog”.

Last week Michelle developed a terrible head cold and Monday morning I woke with the same ailment so by the time I got on the ferry I felt pretty crap, I dozed for most of the 6 hour journey only getting up for 30 minutes to have what turned out to be a somewhat sub standard meal.

It was only a short drive from the port to our stopover at Lion sur Mer a Camping Car Park aire, by 10.30pm we were set up for the night but non of us had a good nights sleep.

Tuesday morning we set off with me again feeling very rough and we drove south to Vitre an old historic town, it was very quiet there with very few people about. I selected to visit Vitre as 6 years ago we were on the way there and en route broke down in Homer 1 spending 3 days on a car park waiting for a new starter motor. The day it was repaired we had arranged to meet Peter and Alison at Mont Saint Michel so we didn’t have time to stop.

It was a short drive from Vitre to tonight’s stopover a campsite at La Pertre a small countryside village where again there are only two of staying the night.