Porth

Friends in Dijon in the Beaune area of France have just telephoned and report lots of snow. However they said that the French side of the Pyrenees are blocked with power lines down and lots of snow.

We are planning our journey through Bayonne then Pamplona Zarragoza and the like before hitting Valencia.

Anyone please have up to date reports weather wise on the Spanish side.

thanks again

EMR

Watching the news last night it is not just snow but floods that are causing problems. Zarrogoza was the subject of a special report.

Porth

Think we will now hold back for a while? Seems sensible?

thanks

Porth

Is there a Spanish web site that we can check upon the weather please?

Retired in Euskadi

I find it easier to Google, for example, "Zaragoza, Spain, weather" and look at a 7 day forecast. There's a cold spell forecast for Spain, but it's so variable.
Anywhere over about 300m could be subject to snow. We're 15minutes from an 800m puerto/pass that has remained open thanks to snow-ploughs.
Our village is 160m above sea level and no snow in sight.

VFR

El Tiempo

tim1963

Why aren't you going via perpignan?!

Porth

In our innocence were burgled between Barcelona and Valencia and with a gun stuck in your face not pleasant. Big black Mercedes.

Any other thoughts?

I am now soisante dix ans and just ten years ago would have put a good fist in all of this but now?

Perhaps we should go to Salcombe or Dartmouth

davidinspain

Snowing here today,although it's not sticking near the coast The last real snow in Perpignan was 2010

tim1963

Why not helicopter in? I think you're being paranoid.

Porth

I absolutely applaud and support your right for unfettered comment. However I do not have to agree with you - and here most certainly do not.

Suggest you think your comment through. It fails to recognise a golf ball being thrown under the car then believing a mechanic problem with let us say non strictly Europeans pointing to the back of the car. Stopped and then it happened.

So unless you stand in the shoes and to whom it happened your comment gives us the man.

tim1963

I get the fact that being mugged at gun point is a shocking experience but your reaction is somewhat irrational and yes, paranoid. You're making a bit of a meal about getting from England to Javea.

MikeJ

Apparently this is a common occurrence on the A7 (maybe why the OP is not going via Perpignan) - there was even a TV program about it, check out youtube. Usually happens shortly after you have had a break and the robbers have checked out your car in the service area. Never leave valuables/handbags etc on display.
The advice of the GC and the PC is never stop on the motorway, always try and get to the next service area or at least where there are plenty of other people. If you have to stop the lock all doors, don't get out of the car and call the GC especially if a 'helpful' car stops for you.
Not sure if you are stopped at gunpoint, apart from having all your valuables locked in the strongbox in the boot.
I know this is a bit grandma and eggs but a lot of people are still getting robbed for not following simple personal safety rules. As the cynics say many tourists leave their brains behind when they go on holiday.

amideislas

Foreign plates - easy pickins'. This doesn't happen much in their home country, so they aren't expecting it. They see you coming. South of France is equally notorious.

la mancha

Well…Porth only asked for advice on the weather in Southern France. Anyone who has driven from the UK to Spain this time of year, as I have in the past, will know what the weather can be like. I always said that part of France in winter can seem like the coldest place on the planet. The snow can suddenly come down and that’s it – you are stranded. Paranoid? I would say cautious. And this time of year you would be well advised to be.