Picos de Europa is a multi-mountain national park in northern Spain, located just off the coast between Santander and Gijón. The road in from the coast heads uphill, passing charming villages, small hotels and restaurants and pastures with cows, horses, sheep and goats. The mountains rise dizzyingly high into the sky and this must be a great place to wander on a hot summer's day.
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In the middle of winter, and with gas running out, going to a campsite with 6 amps of electricity in the poles might not be the best idea - that is, cold! We only stayed one night and just froze all night. Since the LPG was almost gone, we didn't dare to use it for heating, and 6 amps of electricity is not enough. We tried to use the electricity for heating, but it didn't help much. In other words, it was a cold Christmas!
A paradise for walkers
The Picos de Europa are the finest of the mountain ranges in Austria. There are high green-clad mountains and clear lakes. We're here in winter, but maybe you should come at a different time of year to see all the beauty at its best!
Camping Picos de Europa
The campsite we stayed at is called Camping picos de Europa and is located in the mountains. The nature here is beautiful, but we found the campsite rather boring. Maybe it's better in another season? Right now it's cold and damp, and we were pretty much alone at the campsite.
Now we have rolled down to a campsite just outside Gijón. The air is much warmer here and there should be 10 ampere electricity in the poles. Tomorrow we start the hunt for an adapter to connect a Spanish LPG bottle to the LPG system of our motorhome ...
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Katarina Wohlfart says:
But what fun for Peter to photograph that. Must have been awesome:) cosy worse 🙂
25 December 2014 - 18:45
admin says:
Katarina, cool environment... but chilly worse! But it was me who took photos... through the car window
😉
25 December 2014 - 19:13
Mr Steve says:
I'm glad you can keep each other warm.
25 December 2014 - 22:05
admin says:
Steve, it has been good several times!
😉
26 December 2014 - 10:35
Ama de casa says:
Brrr... Hope you get the gas sorted out!
26 December 2014 - 11:26
Ulf Lindkvist says:
LPG in Europe:
https://www.google.se/maps/@50.760165,6.0296381,4z/data=!4m2!6m1!1szTb79_uDrGro.kpiTKHKQIcFY?hl=sv
Greetings
Ulf
26 December 2014 - 15:23
Isa says:
What lovely pictures and what an adventure 🙂 hope it works out with the gas!
26 December 2014 - 15:29
Camilla says:
Keep your fingers crossed that it will be resolved soon with the gas! Understand that you do not want to be left without.
And how nice that you could enjoy some mulled wine, mmmm, the Christmas feeling comes easily with hot mulled wine in the mug 😀.
26 December 2014 - 17:32
Steel city anna says:
Hope it resolves quickly with gas and electricity so you can focus on more fun things! Glad you had mulled wine with you. Such things can mean a lot when you are away from home!
26 December 2014 - 16:48
Anonymous says:
Ama de casa, Spain is a complicated country when it comes to LPG, we have learnt...
Ulf, thank you very much for the link. It doesn't work here in Spain anyway apparently, but we can use it later!
Isa, there's always adventure when travelling by motorhome!
🙂
Steel city Anna, it seems the solution is spelled... Portugal
Camilla, the mulled wine was great! And the gas is needed for everything... without it we can't even cook...
26 December 2014 - 18:37