Shuttle bus ahoy hoy!

Well, what's been happening...?  Apart from the volcano...  We saw a jet the other day and the dutch woman at the campsite who we asked about it didn't really seem to know there was a problem!  So it must be alright.  Good luck getting back on Sunday Bob and Phoebe.

Now, we're sat overlooking a gloomy Mediterranean planning our decent into Barcelona for a couple of days.  Free shuttle bus from the campsite at 1330 tomorrow, so plenty of time before then to get the blog up to date.

Up to 2400km's as per sally satnav, who is doing a blinding job by the way.  Although her attempts at speaking foreign are as good as ours, and she does have a habit of trying to get me to turn left down impassable roads.  We've only had to back out of one tiny alley when she tried to "recalculate" my route!

Weather has been fantastic, up to about 32°C according to the van.  And sunny with it, although it's had a feeble attempt at raining this evening.  I'm beginning to go a darker shade of muddy brown, which is nice.

Highlights: Good choice on the Massif Centrale route - which is superb.  Stayed in our first France Passion site, which is where a farmer / vinery type outfit let's you stay on their land, interesting.  Carcassonne, which is a great C18th mock-up of a medieval town - good job they've done.  Driving up and over the Pyrennees past Pas de las Case into Andorra - it still looks like it's skiable although the slopes are clearly shut!

Next it's Barcelona for a couple of days, then we head back to France along the Med, hopefully the sun will come back for that bit.

Explanation of today's pictures:  1. Hiding behind a tree in a carpark stop-over in Quillan; 2. French car taking his lunch 2.5hour break; 3. Disney should be proud of what they achieved in Carcassonne; 4. View from our lunch stop as we came down into Spain.