
Current "plan" is to do the overnight to Caen, then to Lisbon over about 4 days (roughly 300 miles a day), then back via Santander/Bilbao: 2 days riding then the long ferry home (simply to save holiday book time!).
GoogleMaps, set to avoid Tolls and Motorways, claims Caen to Lisbon is approximately 1200miles, but that's a reasonably "direct" route of possibly quite dull roads.
Does anyone have any recommended roads to ride or places to stay in that general corridor? (ie western side of France, north east/central/western Spain).
Also - I've ridden in France several time, with no issues, but never in Spain. I'm not expecting there to be anything odd about biking in Spain, but are there any legal quirks?