Spain - Dax to San Javier

by Unknown - 20:39 on 03 August 2008

Much much better

Still terribly painful and very very very hot, but

Firstly entry to Spain was a bit low key...just a big blue sign: no stopping, no customs, no nothing, except after a while, a whopping Toll fee, and the guards were wearing brown instead of blue and BIGGER guns.

BUT, my first experience of driving in Spain was just wonderful. The morning was early and misty but promised heat. We were up and down winding mountainous roads. Nothing too scarey for cowardly me - lovely gradual turns that you can stay at 120kmph all the way through. The scenery was hugely impressive: staggering beaautiful mountains, rocky outcrops, wide expansive valleys and always more peaks disappeared above me into the clouds as I looked up.

For an hour or two I enjoyed the most enjoyable drive I've ever had. Wonderful, wonderful - I did I mention the traffic  was so light, it actually startled me when someone overtook me (I'd given up checking my mirror except when I was overtaking).


As the Pyrenees began to flatten (I noticed they were lush green and filled with trees on the northern side but were becoming drier, rockier and shrubby on the southern side.

Travelling now from north west to south east Spain, the weather heated up with a vengeance. The roads stayed mainly empty and fast. The landscape changed from mountains to a long flat empty dusty plain to highlands. It was long aqnd painful and hot but it was just what the BMW bike was made for.

The only bit not so good was past Valencia as I started south on the Med coast road.  It was dirty, absolutely full of M25-ish traffic and quite dangerous. Fortunately my TomTom took me inland a different way which was great.

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