Sunday 8th November

This morning we made the short journey to the Galician town of Foz. We travelled 16 miles (26 kilometres) today. The Aire here is in a marvellous situation - right by the seafront - it's very popular - I counted 19 campervans here when we arrived.

The town of Foz is only a few metres walk from the Aire and is very nice indeed. Here's the harbour.

This was the biggest vessel in the harbour today.

Just beyond the harbour is a very good sandy beach.

We went into a restaurant in town for lunch. We had the menu of the day - three enormous and very well cooked courses, plus wine, plus coffee all for 24 euros for the two of us - amazing! We saw this interesting tree in the street just outside the restaurant.

 

It was quite hot today - about 22C this afternoon. It quickly cooled down as the sun got lower.

Nice light looking towards town from our parking place.

The niceness of the parking place is reflected by the number of vans parked here.

We have been having a problem starting our van (Fiat Ducato 2.2 litre 100 multijet manufactured in 2008). It seems that the electrical circuit which warms the glowplugs (if that is what they're called) is cutting out before the glowplugs are warm enough to start the engine when it is turned over by the starter motor. We think that we may have found a temporary solution which will get us back to our local garage. When you turn on the ignition the light indicating that the glow plugs are heating goes out very quickly. If you then turn off the ignition and turn it back on the light comes on again for a short period. If you repeat this several times in quick succession without activating the starter motor it seems to get the glow plugs hot enough to start the engine when you finally activate the starter motor!? Any advice would be most welcome.