It was time to take our leave of Bonterra Park and head up through Spain and France to the ferry at Ouistreham, so after a final goodbye to friends, we hitched up and headed for Zaragosa and the Pyrenees. We had given ourselves 5 days to get there and had decided to make for Camping Gavin, close to the Somport Tunnel through the mountains.


The roads were excellent and the scenery changed quite regularly, mostly quite different to that we’d experienced for the last month. We had sweeping views in some places, with red soil and distinctively coloured trees, of alluvial fans and the mountains in the distance, and of (quite
bizarrely) huge multi-coloured sculptures of cows outside a factory.

The journey was enlivened with sculpture and bridge decoration spotting, as there was at least one every few miles, all different and all interesting in their own way, from skeletal figures and geometric obelisks to patterned tiles and wrought iron shapes. Our plan was to stay at Gavin for 2 nights to enable us to explore the Pyrenees – IF the weather was good enough.



471km later we finally arrived and settled onto our pitch – a huge choice as there were only about 6 other touring outfits present, plus some unoccupied permanent vans. The whole site is lovely, steeply terraced but with an excellent centrally heated toilet block plus a bar with free wifi. It was a bit of a walk uphill to access it, but it was worth the walk in the setting sun, and after tea we headed up there to reconnect with family & friends.