Author: Franco

Foz

I’ll keep this one fairly brief. Our campsite, FozCamp, was very pleasant with a slope that required judicious use of levelling ramps. It was essentially on the coast though there was a road in between the site and the sea.

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Praia das Catedrais

Or Cathedral Beach, as we call it in English. This is a tourist honeypot beach with some admittedly impressive rock formations. As you approach, you instantly know that it’s a honeypot because there is extensive parking rammed with cars and

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Tapia de Casariego

For some reason the name of this place was proving difficult to hang on to. Francine had an aide memoire word: Tapioca. In my case, Tilapia sprang to mind. Whatever it was called it was a long hop for this

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Ribadesella

Luxury, a 3-night stop. Our campsite was a couple of kilometres out of town. We managed to get a decent enclave in the campsite for our little collection of motorhomes. On our first full day we walked down hill for

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Llanes

On our way to Ribadesella, we made an intermediate stop at Llanes. There is a very useful but quite rough parking area for motor vans on the edge of town. Once parked and assembled we walked a circuitous route into

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Into the Picos

The Picos de Europa have an enviable reputation for being very picturesque. We were going to find out. We drove up the Desfiladero de la Hermida, a canyon-like road to Potes, or TES-PO if you read the road. Why do

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Comillas

We moved on to Caravanning Oyambre, just outside Comillas. This was a pleasant enough campsite with a pleasant enough bar, which deserved sitting at just to check that the beer was also pleasant enough. It was. The site is “close”

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Santillana del Mar

A mere hour or so away from Santander was our third área de autocaravanas and it was the most densely packed yet. This is not a place that you come for the pleasure of camping. We were actually luckier than

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Another Technology Difficulty

We’re off to Santander. Well, more accurately we are off to Somo, which is just across the bay from Santander. There is a pedestrian ferry ride to get you into Santander itself. Somo was a little over an hour’s drive

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Bilbao and the Guggenheim

I was on familiar territory as our group set off once again to walk down into Bilbao. We descended the first three lifts that I’d found then were on traditional steps to get most of the rest of the way

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