An early start again after a much-needed good nights sleep. As is common at this time of year in N. France the water was turned off at the service point but we're okay for now so on the road by our target time.
Another dull and showery day, necessitating the use of headlights and wipers most of the time, we called at a supermarket service station at Chateau Renault to refuel after noticing the gauge reading somewhat lower than expected. As it happened the price, €1.84 litre, was the lowest we saw anywhere in France, it generally being at least 5c more- every little helps! Although there was an autoroute, we didn't bother with it as the only benefit was to avoid the towns and villages; okay we wouldn't have to worry so much about speed limits but we're in no rush. The big city of Tours, however, was worth avoiding but fortunately there is a free section around the conurbation which nevertheless still offered nice views of the city.
A little further down the road we pulled in at a Carrefour supermarket we've stopped at before for a bit of shopping and lunch. However the shop was closed for lunch (a first for us!) so after our own repas we trundled on.
The rest of the day was sunshine and showers as we tracked the N10 south. Colin had picked out an Aire about 45m short of Bordeaux which would be around our expected stopping time so TomTom was programmed and found it easily just off the main road. To be honest, despite being well-rested when we started both drivers had had enough and even the suggestion of eating “out” at the attractive-looking restaurant at the Aire entrance didn't appeal. So the usual cuppa and a snack followed by a nap.
All along we've been keeping up-to-date with the various threads on the MotorhomeFun forum, especially for Morocco 2023. Indeed we've made our own contributions in order to help other Funsters but a new problem reared it's ugly head when someone “discovered” that an Animal Health Certificate was required to go to Morocco, not a Moroccan requirement but Spanish! This made no sense to us until we noticed it had originated on Facebook, that well-known font of all knowledge, but nevertheless Terry spent an hour trying to research the facts and avoid “opinions” to no real avail. There were hints of certain requirements which seemed to indicate this affected animals returning to Spain so we decided to wait for further developments. This has put a bit of a dampener on our plans but being too tired to make any decisions we called it a very early night.
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