We were hoping for a slow news day today after the stress and excitement of getting out from Santander but it was not to be. We set off at 9am, after an hour of packing up and had a nice quiet road initially. We stopped in Santona at 10.30am for a nice coffee and apple cake, great to be able to get away with eating as much as possible! then it got a bit busy but even more importantly, the big hills began. We had about 5 or 6 climbs of about 40 minutes or more over the day which when fully loaded down with stuff, it was extremely hard work.
Lunch in a workmans bar was a mixed salad and Chorizo and spuds in gravy which filled a spot.
We wanted to get as close to Bilbao as possible in order to take that conurbation on early Saturday morning. We think we are Zerbina and the camp site with lots of recommendations on Google had actually closed 4 years ago so we ended up spending 50 klebbies each for a room in a bit of a flea pit.
Anyway, it is clean and took the opportunity to wash the rapidly accumulating smelly clobber so we have stuff hanging all over the place. all off to bed now as shattered and need to get up early again tomorrow to attack yet more mountains, and just watched the weather forecast which is rain and rain and more rain for Saturday and Sunday!
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Sounds like a good team effort there. Following your blog with lots of admiration! keep up the good work and lovely to hear those progress reports. We are all behind you (although not literally, couldn't hack those mountains). Love Brenda.
ReplyDeletePS will say a prayer for you at Mass tomorrow to have the wind behind you!