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| Gourdon to Foix - 158 miles |
Awoke to a heavy frost
and outside minus something, but the heating quickly warmed things up
and it wasn't long before the sun came over the hill and melted the
frost to make a gorgeous bright blue sky, which persisted all day.
Breakfast then discovered a problem with the charge for fuel on
Saturday, but a quick call to a very helpful Barclays hopefully has
sorted it out – we know what has happened but not sure why and will
check again in a couple of days.
With the water tap now
unfrozen we did a full service before getting on the road again; this
is a lovely little spot and if it hadn't been so cold we felt we
could have stayed a day or two, but the sun is calling
us............... A really lovely run, though, through a nice part of
France we haven't explored before and is on our “places to go back
to” list. A fast and reasonably quiet road, we skirted Montaubin
and then stopped just before Toulouse for a bit of shopping, lunch
and to refuel. We haven't seen any evidence of shortages but needed
more to reach Spain and it was only a few pence more per litre than
at home.
Toulouse was hectically
busy, not helped by the laptop navigator going on strike, but
fortunately we carry good maps as backup and had no problems,
eventually getting clear and espying the Pyrenes Mountains ahead of
us. But it soon became clear that we wouldn't get that far in
daylight so, having a reasonable choice of places to stop, we chose a
free aire in the largish town of Foix which had reasonable reviews. A
bit awkward to find, we eventually arrived at a non-descript
motorhome parking area tucked away about 700m from the town centre,
with a couple of “permanent” resident, well we suppose you could
call an old ambulance and a converted box lorry, “motorhomes”.
Not very impressed, especially after the lovely spots we've had up to
now, we decided we'd stay but be a bit more “security conscious”
as it was a bit late to move on to an alternative. However it is free
and there is water and waste disposal. We were joined later by
another “proper” van!
Although not as cold
as this time yesterday, it's not really warm enough for a look around
the town. Andorra is around 100km away so we'll try for an earlier
start in the morning.
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