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After changing the ferry times yesterday we cannot spend the day watching the elephants. Anyway, when we wake it's blowing a hoolie as the storm that disrupted the ferries has come ashore. On the way out we stop and watch the elephants for ten minutes, having come to see them we can't just leave straight away.
We refuel just outside Caberceno and join the A8 dual carriageway which will take us to France. Although it's bright and sunny, driving conditions are horrendous in places, especially on the long viaducts of which there are plenty. In places we can look out to sea; about a quarter of its surface is covered in white horses right to the horizon. Twigs and small branches fly at us from trees swaying on the mountainsides.
We press on, with respite coming inside tunnels, remembering this same route from last year.
With 100 miles completed we stop at Deba for a lunch, after which we make better progress as the road goes inland except for a short stretch just before we cross into France.
We stick to the toll road as far as Bayonne then head inland, covering much of the route we took going the other way six weeks ago. The temperature rises to 17C as we travel through avenues of epitome trees and alongside typical Landes woods of sand pine.
Away in the distance are the high white Pyrennees peaks covered in thick snow.
At 16:40 we reach the camperstop at Grenade sur l'Adour, a gravel car park betwen a rugby pitch and a graveyard. Three other vans turn up but don't stay, then one French one parks nearby. Later we ae joined by a small blue Fiat camper Nick is sure we have seen near home on Pendennis Point.
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