On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:11:53 -0000, "Alan Gardiner"
wrote:


"Tom" wrote in message
...
I'm driving down from North Shropshire to Malaga starting Tuesday, via
west
coast French motorway through Nantes&Bordeaux, then Bilbao, Burgos,
Madrid,
Valdepenas,Jaen, Granada.
Does anyone have any forecast as to the likely state of the weather, will
it
affect the road and should I consider an alternative route.

Thanks
Tom

I have driven on the west coast French motorway and can recommend it. South
of Bordeaux it turns into a dual carriageway RN road full of Spanish and
Portuguese HGVs - they avoid the toll sections of the network for cost
reasons. Fortunately they are forbidden from overtaking on long sections of
this road and on the whole they seem to comply so you should not get stuck
behind too many of them. From the look of the charts the weather should be
good with light SE winds and not too cold.


Presumably the heavy snow that affected Burgos and Palencia over Christmas
should be largely gone by now?

Martin


Alan