The cheapest fuel in Spain!

We actually had a fair bit of rain on Friday night! Haven't heard that noise on Max's roof in a long time. I think we had a few drops the last night we were in Morocco, but that was just spitting. This time it came down fairly hard for a few hours.

But at least it was overnight, and by the time we got ready to walk back into Salamanca it was clearing up.

Bit of a cold front that moved in though, with a high of only 17C (63F). Supposed to warm up each day for the coming week though into the high 20's. Quite pleasant.

Walked into Salamanca without any real destination in mind. We did head into the central market which we figured would be fairly busy on a Saturday morning, but it wasn't. I didn't even take any photos. Not one of the better markets we've been in.

On the outskirts of old town Salamanca.

Nice building. Notice that the graffiti criminals get everywhere.

Looking towards the newer section of town.

Salamanca is about 150,000 people.

We walked back through this big park.

Fountain in the park.

Ruth.

The duck pond.

Walked back to Max, having done about 8 kms (5 miles). 

The motorhome aire outside Salamanca is just a parking lot where the motorhomes crowd in far too close for my liking. These types of aires are great for visiting the cities, but they're not attractive at all. This one was located in an industrial area with a lot of gas stations. Maybe due to the amount of competition, but some of these stations had really cheap fuel. In fact, it turns out that this part of Salamanca has the cheapest fuel in Spain! 

We went and filled our LPG (propane) tanks first, at €0.94 a liter. Spain seems to average around €1 a liter for propane, so €0.94 is not a huge deal, but it is certainly the cheapest we've seen it. 

Then we got diesel for €1.33 a liter which is really cheap considering most of the country is €1.55 or so.

That will more than do us for the rest of the month, however we'll top up both propane and fuel again in Bilbao before we take the ferry to Ireland (two weeks from today!) because both are cheaper here than Ireland.

With that done, we hit the road northeast towards Valladolid. 

Scenery along the way.

Some rolling hills.

We took the main highway most of the way.

Then we got onto a secondary road towards the town of Castronuño.

Castronuño has a nice small motorhome aire with countryside views. It's free, but it has electric available if you want to pay €5 for it. Really nice and quiet, except for a high speed train nearby that goes through once every couple of hours during the day. Only one other van there, with France plates.

Ruth thinks this is a crested lark.

Here's an updated map of our approximate route since we left Consuegra almost two weeks ago...

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Record low deal on this Padded Camp Cot.

And in Canada...

Cuisinart Bread Maker.