Tuesday 29th December

Had a walk round Jaca, then discovered our kitchen tap had decided to give up the ghost! It seems motorhoming is one problem after another. Still Hymer is getting old so I suppose these things will start failing in her. We decided to head for the city of Pamplona to try and get some internet access and find a motorhome shop. Also at this point Tom had really packed up as well and was no use, so we would either have to get him fixed or buy a new one. We looked round some shops, found some internet access and after seeing the prices of new GPS systems, made contact with my friend and fellow band member Paul. We then packaged Tom up and sent him off to the UK for Paul to fix, Cheers Paul. Onto the next problem, the tap. After searching the net we established the one shop we could find was near San Sebastian on the coast. By this point it was already getting dark and we didn’t really want to stay in Pamplona, so we headed off towards the coast to park up ready for the shop in the morning. A few hours later we were driving around Andoain and missing Tom to tell us where to go and stop for the night. As before we left I had downloaded motorhome stop over places for Europe onto him. We followed a sign to what looked like a nature/picnic area and after a steep climb found a spot for the night. We also realised how France had spoilt us, as it has Aires specifically for motorhomes to stop in. Where as Spain doesn’t, so it’s a case of finding a spot. This is always harder in the dark, especially as we never like staying in lay-bys by busy roads