Another Day of Driving

Saturday, April 18, 2009

So, like April 12, this was a big driving day as we headed all the way from Andorra to Fontainebleau.  At least this time, we had the radio.

When we left Andorra in the morning after breakfast at the hotel, Nick was trying to lobby to spend an extra day there for skiing, because the rainstorm yesterday in the southern half of Andorra had dumped a lot of snow on the mountains in the northern half of Andorra.  I’m not a big skier, though, and I wanted to make sure the roads were going to be clear after we went through the mountain pass and started to descend on the north side of the mountains.  So, instead, I just took a few pictures on the drive out.

 

 

 

After that, Nick and I drove and drove and drove.  At one point we saw a Moulin Rouge.

Eventually, about two hours before dark, we finally arrived at a rainy campsite in Fontainebleau that we hadn’t been to before.  We were hoping that we might find some OUMC friends there, but we didn’t have any way of communicating with them (it turned out that some of them had been stopped by some sort of ferry/port strike and hadn’t even made it to France, anyway).  So we set up the tent in the rain, and cooked dinner under a little tarped-over cooking area they had.  I was pretty grumpy about all the rain.  But at least it had showers (it seems like almost all pay-for campgrounds I’ve been to in Western Europe have showers, which is nice, even if the showers themselves are often kind of yucky – these ones had lots of spiders).

So that was a pretty boring day, complete with rain at night (which convinced Nick that we definitely should have stayed in Andorra to ski).  But that was our day.