THE START OF NEW SEASON PART 1

Hi to you all. As i said it was going to be a bit of time until i posted again. I think about 3weeks now and boy, does time fly. AT the moment I am back in the UK but lets not get head of myself lets go back to the start. I said it was show time again and I was due to pick up Steve another uk driver from Ashford in Kent and head to the yard nr Rotterdam.




Ok we got to the yard and the plan had changed yet again (IT WAS that Robert, Steve and me were heading for Spain) it ended up with just me and Robert going south and Steve was going to do something else. As my truck had not been painted yet i had to take Leon's truck (one of our Dutch drivers) but that was ok as the show we were putting in down south was his show. As this blogg goes on, you will understand whats going on. So let me come back to the plot. Me and Robert where heading for the port of Algeciras in southern Spain with two stalks of chassis's for the containers from Japan or somewhere in that part of the world. It was a live show which is heading for Las Palmas Gran Canaria. Ok took some pic's on the way down, none in France as most of that part was done in the dark, so sorry no piccys of Paris; well there's not a lot to see driving through there anyway and you've got to have your eyes on the French idiot driver's. So down to where we stopped for the night which was Orleans, well south of Paris. So that was Tuesday 01.09.09 over and done with. Wednesday saw us heading south again nothing more to add there till we got to the border at Irun. They have opened it up, no custom building there any more just toll booth's and your in Spain.




The first photo's are of the new motorway going over Pamperlona, it's a lot of mountains and the old road was a nice run but a bit on the tight side as it was a single lane road and very steep and it took a bit of time to go that way.


There are a lot of tunnels up here too.

This was late in the day and the temp had dropped a bit so had to put a log on the fire!!!

These photo's are of a sunset over Vitoria in Spain at the end of the second day just before we parked up for the night at a nice truck stop/hotel good food and very clean shower's.

This is a plane coming into land. look's good to me.

Ok Thursday was just heading south. The route was Burgos / Valladolid/Salamanca/Badajoz to Sevilla where time was up 10hrs driving again today.


This was heading around Salamanca.

This town is somewhere south of Valladolid. Small town but it's got two BIG churches in it. There are a lot of these two church towns around here.

and another one.

Ok this is Friday morning not far from where we are heading to (Algeciras). This photo was taken on another day as it was only just getting light when we passed here.

Same water but with out the bridge.

Cannot remember where this was, think somewhere south of Badajoz
just got the camera out in time.

Still heading for the port at Algeciras.
The temp was 30c +.

They have been building a lot of new motorways down here. The road to the left is the old road and we are heading for the one on the right.

This pic fell in the wrong place but it's the bridge at Sevilla.

Ok got to the port, had to do custom's for the containers coming in they were all on ATA carnet's. Put them into the agent and then over to the port as the boss had made arrangments for the chassis's to be unstacked. When we do it with the sideloader it takes sometime but in here they use a toplifter and a 20ft box. Sorry but did not have time to get photo's. They where all on the floor with in the hour. Then it was a waiting game for customs to clear them, and the boat only got in that morning. So it was about 4pm before we got the first one's. We then had to transport 6 containers over to the port of Cadiz about 2hrs away before the boat left from Cadiz to Las Palmas on Tuesday afternoon. We did two on Friday and two on Saturday; then there was a change of plan again. The stage we were to use in Las Palmas was coming over with us, but the Spanish company had some sort of problem so Robert was going to head to Malaga on Monday to pick the trl up which the stage was loaded on and me to do the last two containers. So Saturday night and Sunday was spent in Cadiz, it was very hot about 37c in the day and 27c at night.

The next couple of photo's are heading back to Algeciras on Saturday morning. This is the coast road, well it was not that close to the coast at times but we were looking for somewhere to park for the rest of the weekend after picking up on Saturday morning but there was no where to stop.

Them hill's have alot off wind in them .

Looks nice. That's as close to the mediterranean as we got on this road.

That's the port of Algeciras in the distense. We said we were not going to come back the same way. It was ok with just the unit but not with the trl as well.

Ok we got back to Cadiz Saturday afternoon got somewhere to take a shower and shit it was so cold i think the water was coming from the fridge or something, the old man and his mates disappeared (guys will now what i mean).

I am doing this last blogg in parts so i will leave this one for now as we are back into Cadiz for the week end with nothing to do. The next post will be with some photo's of Cadiz and Las Palmas but not of the tourist type photos you would expect. You will see them soon.

So keep it sunny side up till then my friends have a safe one and keep smiling.