Driving!!

Weell it has been very exciting, turning you brain around and doing things backwards on very narrow roads.

We picked up the car from Barcellona Airport and initially the GPS wouldn't work in the car park. Just go outside the bloke said it work out there! 'Out there was a network of freeways where the speed was 80 to 100km per hour!

Too scared to go any further without the GPS we stopped and tried to get it going. Did the usual, push reset, pushed again,..and again. Still nothing. No phones working. Travel tip 378 - don't use you Australian phone by a prepaid in country of destination but don't do 'Orange'. Their coverage and service is abit like Telstras!

So Silver decide we could use the downloaded directions from Google to get us the 500km to the Hotel......hhhhmmmm.

Well she was mostly right but everything is new and the names didn't line up too well. It was terrifying!

Next thing 'Roger' the GPS speaks to us! So I pulled off the road..legally I don't care and we set Roger up to give us directions. I was very relieved as reversing your brain from 40 years of conditioning when tired is very difficult.

Needless to say we got to the hotel with only one other major incident of nearly telling Silver to drive in front of a truck as oncoming traffic is in the left lane when turning left as you are crossing the stream of traffic. That adrenalin rush lasted us to our destination.

We have discovered roger isn't very good at small villages so he will take us to the centre or plaza and thats it. Then it is up to us! People are very good in spite of the fact very few have any English.

Thats it for now. There are more driving stories particularly the drive around the roundabout the wrong way, getting too close to right side of the narrow roads etc