Here is our plan for tomorrow. We’ll start when I get off work at around 16:00.
Route Path:
- Pforzheim, Germany.
- Bordeaux, France.
- Aires, Portugal.
Distance: 2300km
Time: 23h (driving time).
So here we are after another week full of ups and downs, we are leaving for some quality time with our friends and family before we come back to (finally!) a normal life. A (rented) house in Stuttgart, a job, kindergarten, language school, etc…
And here is our adventure (realtime pictures here):
- Time spent: 26h00
- Distance covered: 2300km
- Gas money: 143,70€
- Toll money: 56,60€
- Extras: 33,15€
RoadBook (GMT+1):
2008.12.19
15:00 – Time to go! All packed and ready. We have fuel for 400km… Let’s roll…
15:20 – The girls have to pee… 
16:00 – A5 heading to Strasburg, packed 2-lane highway.
17:00 – A36 entering France! A bit rainy before leaving Germany but it is dry here. Got a 3G connection from OrangeF.
20:00 – Trying to stay below the speed limit we drove 3 hours in the rain with some short periods of dense fog. The little one fell asleep for one hour and we’re feeling good. We are now eating in a highway rest area. Everyone speaks French! 
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21:00 – Got off A6 and we have now around 200km in national roads (70 and 90km/h limit). Caffeine levels are ok. The little one is watching a movie and ready to sleep. Joy is driving, I am writing .
23:00 – Finally back on the highway, we roll on the A71 after spending 2 hours behind trucks. My turn to drive now.
2008.12.20
03:00 – Ah… Big strech and two times out of the highway as told by the navigation sexy voice. Stopped for caffeine and gas… We are still in the A89 but we’ll soon be passing Bordeaux and then heading south into Spain.
09:00 – It was a looooong ride through the whole night. I am done. We stopped for food, in Spain, 300km before Madrid. The sun shines and the weather is now clear, much safer than the fog we got during the night.
11:00 – Got an hour and a half of semi-sleep and we are now getting closer to Madrid. And we can read 188km to the Portuguese border. It is all covered in fog we can’t see sh*t… My turn to drive.
14:30 – Stop for quick lunch in Fundao. It is hot and sunny. Next stop in Setubal.
17:30 – What a hell! This is not Christmas, it’s Summer, 18°C!? Drove the last 3 hours in the desperate mood of finally getting my ass off this car! Enough is enough and we made it safelly I’ll be home hugging my parents pretty soon… I wonder how am I getting all the way back to Heilbronn… But we’ll worry about that in 2 weeks time.
