Day 40 - Flies…. Flies everywhere

Another travel day today. We woke up about 6:30, my turn to take Marla out first thing for her business. The problem with this campsite is that it’s basically straight off of the main road, so there’s not really anywhere to go for a dog walk. Thankfully most people had left the day before, with more people leaving even after I’d written yesterday’s blog! So we were able to walk around the pitches so Marla could do her business. The mountains this morning looked really misty, and the sky looks a bit orange. It’s very atmospheric!

After we’d got mostly ready to head off, we took Marla for another wander and found the on site football pitch / playing field. With no one around we let Marla off lead and she had the biggest zoomies! She definitely needed to get that out of her system. Unfortunately she didn’t like being restricted to just the pitch, and started to bugger off back up to the campsite. Thankfully we had a whistle and she responds to that - cheeky little monkey. So back on the lead, and back to do the final van prep ready for travel.
Today’s the first time I’ve had an issue when emptying the toilet, managed to get a bit of splash back on my bare leg. No worries - I can wash that off fine. Then I turned a tap on too quickly and got splashed with cassette splash back…. gross…. So back to the van for a full change and wash….

Finally on the road. Our travel time was about 3.5 hours, so we stopped after about an hour at a supermarket and it was finally my turn to go in. We had a bit of fun getting in to the car park. There was a height barrier for the car park, but not for the petrol station which you could drive through to get into the car park. So I managed to park up ok, after a bit of tight manoeuvring. Thankfully we didn’t need too much - the shop was massive but there didn’t seem to be much that was suitable for us (not bulky and vegetarian!). This was definitely a meat heavy shop, lots of different raw meat counters and many pig legs hanging around.

Back to the van to unload, have a spot of lunch and carry on our way. I did one small navigational error - stupid Sat nav said to slight right, when they meant turn right. Oh well, no harm, no foul.

The drive was pretty uneventful. We stopped at a couple of look out points so Marla could stretch her legs and do some business. It was mostly motorway / dual carriageway and the speed limit for us is 90kph - none of the big lorry’s were doing anything like that. Most were doing 100 easy, so I joined in (when in Rome!). I get annoyed when a big old lorry overtakes me, and I was getting bored of driving at less than 60mph for such long distances. Thankfully Google maps is allowed to tell me when the speed cameras are coming up again!

We arrived at site late afternoon. We were the only people here, and no one else was due to check in - so we had our choice of pitches. Only we can’t actually park on a pitch, the ground is quite delicate from recent rain, and with more forecast although we won’t get stuck, we are likely to damage the grass. So we’ve had to park on the camp road, and have our habitation door facing out pitch. A bit strange but it’s ok, especially as we got to pick a lovely view!

We set up all our gear outside ready for a relaxing evening, unfortunately the flies around here had a very different idea. The buggers are absolutely everywhere. We lit a citronella candle, no effect. Charlie covered himself in bug spray, no effect. They are on the van, in the van and out to really piss us off. We’ve made a makeshift fly swat from some cardboard. I think we’ve dispatched about 20 in the van. Hopefully we’ve got them all and we won’t have any buzzing at bedtime.

We had a small wander off site, there’s a lot of farms around here and you can certainly smell them.

We have now got some company on the campsite, a couple and their caravan arrived about an hour after we did. Thankfully they’ve gone and pitched up the opposite end of the camp.

We had some dinner in the van, falafel and cous cous, then headed to the camp bar / restaurant for a glass of wine. It was an absolute bargain, €6 for two glasses of local red and a small plate of spicy snackies.

This camp site has 407 5* reviews on Google - but I’m afraid I really don’t see the massive attraction. We are booked here for three nights based on the rave reviews, but have already decided to move on after 2 nights - that means we can have a full day tomorrow to do some washing, exercise and Marla can decompress a bit. Then we will move on. We are coming up to halfway through our trip, and we don’t want to spend time in places if we’re not having fun.Okumaya devam et