The Longest Day 🥱

After the excitement and exercise of yesterday we slept well and woke knowing we had lots to do today. We were out of water, food too and needed to get some washing done today, so we left fairly early. It was a beautiful clear blue sky as we took to the road back down the mountain, but before we knew it we were climbing back up another. On the way up we stopped to watch a helicopter 🚁 flying overhead with a large load hanging beneath it by a long rope. It was delivering something to one of the high peaks nearby. Amazing to watch, the skill of the pilot was obvious. The precision involved in picking up and dropping off his cargo was incredible as the wind was pretty strong. We carried on up until we reached the top of the pass and then parked up to have a look around. It was cold and windy at the pass through the high mountain but actually quite a hot day down in the valleys, so we decided to drive as far as possible today as Bliss doesn’t like the heat. We found a place on Park4night that has washing machines and headed for that as it was also at a supermarket so we could stock up the fridge too at the same time. It was quite a distance and meant going over three more mountain passes (called “cols” here) but needs must.
We came to a sign saying road closed which was the road we really wanted to take else it would mean a massive detour! After sitting for a while and seeing several other vehicles including a large A class motorhome go through and not come back we decided to ignore the road closed sign and do it anyway. We got up the road quite a way before we saw road workers. There was traffic coming from the other direction and the workers didn’t stop us (or them) so we squeezed through and carried on uphill. They had just laid fresh hot smelly tarmac! When we reached the top we pulled over and took a look at our wheels, we had a good half inch thick layer of tarmac stuck to them. Oops! 😬. Ivy’s bad ass tire tread left like an incriminating fingerprint at the scene of a crime!
There was another great view to look at and lots of cows chilling amongst us and the masochistic cyclists, motorcycles, campers, cars that also pulled over to savour the sights. Where there’s cows, there’s flies too of course so we soon decided to get going. I can hardly express how seriously annoying they can be, like they deliberately try to wind you up and know exactly how to do it.
A long day of driving and we eventually found the supermarket and the washing machines and as a bonus also a jet wash to give Ivy a good clean. Chores all done in a couple of hours and we still had to find somewhere to stay for the night. We tried one place that had water but no space for us to stay, so topped up and continued hunting. It was getting quite late now and the light was fading. The wildlife evening shift was coming out. On the way to the place that we ended up staying we saw the oh so cutest little baby fox 🦊 and then we saw some young deer who were startled in our headlights.
After the longest day we found a lovely quiet retreat by a small river, collapsed into bed and slept like the dead.Meer informatie