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…

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…

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”…

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…

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…

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…

We were heading to our first motor-vans-only “caravan park” overlooking Bilbao. I dislike driving around Bilbao, which we’ve done several times on our way in and out of Spain during the halcyon days of having Casa Libelula down in Jalon.…

Camping Igara provides a 9-seat shuttle bus down onto the edge of San Sebastién and back, at appointed times. We piled in to the shuttle at 10:00, with a few of our more energetic travellers choosing to walk down. We…

It was about a 45-minute run from our campsite in Saint-Jean-de-Luz to our next campsite, in Spain, at San Sebastién [San Sébastian if you’re French]. We didn’t have to be there until midday so we left shortly before 11:00 to…

Francine had originally ear-marked a campsite near Saint-Jean-de-Luz but, as it transpired, our friends from the UK had also been working their way down the west of France and were now on another campsite near Saint-Jean-de-Luz. It would seem churlish…