We do have worries too you know!

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you feel comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable" - Clifton Fadiman

When we first entered France, we went for the first campsite we could find. As excited as we should have been, the site, in hindsight was a little bit of a let down. It didn't quite live up to the expectations. Well, the same seems to have happened again as our introduction to Spain. It will work, but has only compounded some of our apprehensions about moving home today. 

As fabulous as this whole things sounds, there are times when we can feel wildly at sea. Today has been a little like this. We. left our lovely campsite and home for the last 3 days which was at St Jean Pied de Port, and set off for Spain. We lumped the warm Hugo over the top of the Pyrenees, the fan doing it's best to keep things cool. We did the obligatory photos on top looking down, and then set ourselves to roll down to Pamplona. The journey down was quite nice really, a very different and immediate landscape that flattened more readily. There were a plethora of new flavoured road signs to digest, and a wonderment of various traffic light signals to understand as we headed straight into Pamplona. We were aiming to miss out Pamplona altogether, and even with the rather slick Clare-nav, we got hopelessly lost. This dampened the spirits somewhat, especially when we went on the N121a road, which apprently was where we needed to be, only to find out half an hour later that there are two N 121a roads. One to the east of the city, and one to the north, neither seemingly attached. Anyway we arrived, bumbled through some apologetic Spanish in the hope of a more successful bilingual host. I got lucky, the lady spoke English and that helped navigate her way through my failing, but enthusiastic, attempts at Spanish. We are now on a site that is 10k from Pamplona. So that's our cycle tomorrow, and again on Wednesday as La Vuelta departs from the town.

Anyway, I digress, yes we do have worries. There has been an air of anxiety today. Whether it is the new country, the unnerving squeaks and hums of Hugo as we travel (we have developed a squeak from a wheel that seems to start about an hour an a half into each journey), the new language, the driving etc, but there is a little trepidation. It sounds very silly, but we had got very comfortable in France and relatively it now feels like we have left home again! We are back out of the comfort zone, so a little focus is needed. It all keeps us on our toes though. 

So we shall see, that's what it's all about.....not the okey cokey!

Ed