Today I was awake at 6am to see the stunning sunrise from our camp. It was nice and cool this morning and we spent the morning chilling out at at camp and didn’t get away until after lunch.

Today, we drove back into Spain, over a long bridge. I am no longer just film maker and route planner. I am route strategist. I am trying to find the best route to get to the south of Spain by avoiding the heat.

My plan today was to stop somewhere in the mountains where it would be cooler. That didn’t work out too well. I did find a nice spot overlooking a lake, and we stopped for the afternoon and had a nap. But we decided we didn’t want to stay there as it was next to a main road.

So we continued on, looking at every parking place for a camping car. But none of them seemed very nice. Next thing, we are off the mountains, and the heat was brutal and we still hadn’t found somewhere.

We drove to a town called Lora de Rio, as there was a place there. But as we drove in, there were towering apartment blocks and it just looked like a scummy town. So we got the hell out. By this time it was 9pm and we only had 45 minutes before the sunset.

Even though I took a wide berth of Seville. I think we are still on the outskirts which is why we are having trouble finding somewhere, and everything is so busy.

So, even though we are heading south, we’d found a place about 30 minutes east, so we headed there, arriving just as the sun set. It’s nothing great, just a big carpark in a town. But there was another campervan here which made us feel better.

But so much for avoiding the heat. Even at 9pm it was still 35 degrees. So we headed out for dinner. Thankfully there were a few bars near us, but only one place was open for food on a Tuesday night. It’s actually the first time I’ve seen Spanish people eating, but was 10pm by this stage, so that’s probably why.

We looked at the menu, and didn’t really know what to order. I wasn’t very hungry, so we just ordered some patatas bravas and a pork skewer. Both were pretty bad. The zero beer was nice though. 

It was 11pm by the time we’d finished and still way too hot to sleep. So we didn’t end up in bed until after midnight. Hopefully it will be cooler by the coast.