Finally here !!!

Hi everyone, We finally got here after a very choppy crossing! - details to follow later as still on other computer. Got off the ferry about 1 ish and ran into a stroppy copper who didn´t like us taking tourist photos so he made us empty all our paniers out and looked suspiciously when he saw our sealed bags of porridge - he obviously doesn´t eat his for breakfast!

It was very scary at first entering into a very busy city, and trying to find our way out riding on the wrong side of the road, laden down, but eventually, after 1.5hours we actually managed to get out. We do know our way around numerous Santander industrial estates and very nice they were too.

Finally got out of the city (which we didnt realise it was so big) and made our way around the estuary and back up the other side. We are now in Loredo at a campsite called Derby which is on the coast. The sun has gone and only a bit of rain so we got the tents up, had a shower then made tea

That consisted of a tin of Mackeral, spagetti and a tomato sauce, finished off with some a cup of tea and a big slab of Spanish chocolate cake

We are in a games room at the moment using a spanish computer so you will have to wait for the photographs until we find a campsite with wi fi

We only managed 38 kilometres today, mainly due to taking ages in getting out of Santander.

We hope to get just this side of Bilbao tomorrow then take that town on first thing Saturday morning - hopefully without the amount of traffic we had today, although to be fair the Spanish drivers are much more patient in allowing for wobbly english cyclist to go their merry way.

Just a quickie for the children, hoping you all OK, missing you loads, we will be home in no time.xxx

fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow and a chance to catch up on the miles we didn´t do today. Hopefully we can log in somewhere tomorrow. byeeeeee