Sopuerta (Spain) to Frías

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Sopuerta, Spain to Frías

Motorhome Journey from Sopuerta to Frías

After 3 nights here at Sopuerta we wake to a warm and sunny morning, the sun slanting through the trees next to our parking place making delightful, dappled light (as well as providing good shelter from the hot midday sun). We breakfast and service Hymer, there is some indecision about leaving Sopuerta as the campsite here has everything that we need: all services, toilet/shower, plenty of shade along one side, walking distance to the village as well as historical hiking trails and the iron ore history.

We leave the village on BI-3631, through Mercadillo up into the mountains to Torre Loizago, the Rolls Royce museum, a world class collection of RR cars (mostly) and a few other RR vehicles dating from 1890 onwards.

We are directed by a steward to park, not in the smallish car park but on one of the roads on the site. We pay our €4.50 (concession) each and spend several hours wandering between halls (or pavilions) each holding a magnificent selection of RR cars and up-market vintage vehicles all in first-class condition. It seems incongruous to bring them here into the mountains, even James Bond’s Aston Martin, Lamborghinis etc.

We arrive at Frias around 5.30, another Campingcar-Park site that has about 40 pitches, one side under trees so we head for one of those spots. It is a lovely location, immediately beneath the Medieval town of Frias which is built on a 1:4 hill up to Frias Castle. We have a super view of the Castle, and it’s Keep and can see people slowly climbing the steep stairs up to its topmost point. As it is reasonably early and the heat of the day (27°C today) has passed, we walk up the steep cobbled main street to a square paved plateau, obviously used for community functions, just outside the castle and Eglise (which is locked). We explore the environment and the view down onto the campsite and see Hymer parked below us.

On the way down we look for places to eat, one likely place telling us that it is too early as the kitchen doesn’t open until 7.30pm, interestingly we note others like us also looking for somewhere to get a meal! Back to Hymer we open wine and sit under the trees, later cooking beefburger, new potatoes and mushrooms for tea. There are 14 of us staying overnight at Frias, most are parked under the trees.