It's flipping warm. It's still 38c here.
Just booked a hotel in Somo for tomorrow night, it's closer to Santander than I wanted, but the beach looks nice.
The Pyrenees/Northern Spain
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Re: The Pyrenees/Northern Spain
Somo is great. The beach is huge. The wife had a dip in the sea, so that's the med and the Atlantic in one trip.
The roads started to get interesting again as we headed north west.
At one point we passed though a little Alpine looking village in a valley and the bike temp dropped to 24c!
The wife was suggesting we stop so she could put her hoodie on under her mesh jacket. I guess you do get acclimatized after a while.
Soon went back up to 29c, probably the coolest day's riding so far.
The motorway between Bilbao and Santander must be the best motorway in the world, it's a 120kph limit and twisty as fook, the locals love a race, but you can beat them easy when they slow down for the speed cameras.
23km tomorrow for the big boat home.
The roads started to get interesting again as we headed north west.
At one point we passed though a little Alpine looking village in a valley and the bike temp dropped to 24c!
The wife was suggesting we stop so she could put her hoodie on under her mesh jacket. I guess you do get acclimatized after a while.
Soon went back up to 29c, probably the coolest day's riding so far.
The motorway between Bilbao and Santander must be the best motorway in the world, it's a 120kph limit and twisty as fook, the locals love a race, but you can beat them easy when they slow down for the speed cameras.
23km tomorrow for the big boat home.
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Re: The Pyrenees/Northern Spain
Home.
It only took 7.5 hours due to the M5 being a total shite.
Total milage just under 1,700 miles... tho 600 of that was just getting to Plymouth and back.
It only took 7.5 hours due to the M5 being a total shite.
Total milage just under 1,700 miles... tho 600 of that was just getting to Plymouth and back.
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Re: The Pyrenees/Northern Spain
The ferry is pretty chill.
You're a captive audience so the prices aren't cheap. 6E for a pint, etc... but they don't give a damn if you take your own food or booze.
We bought two bottles of tinto in Somo and sat and drank them in the bar while eating our supermarket bought crisps. Our Team (just me) came 2nd in the quiz (out of 39 teams).
They cram the bikes in really close, much closer than I've experienced on the Dover ferry. You get put on first in the lowest deck, head first into a dead end, which makes it proper free for all when you're tyring to get off. Getting off you have to wait for all the cars and foot passengers to disembark and passport control is a joke, the bikes have their own queues and each bike must take twice as long as a car to clear, removing helmets, etc..
Today we docked at 11:15, but didn't get off the boat and clear passport control until just after 12:30.
There's a (very) small swimming pool in one of the bars and a cinema, kids entertainments and competitions. The boat out had some kind of whale spotting crew on board and were pointing out the whales and dolphins. I only saw one whale breach and a pod of half a dozen dolphins leaping.
You're a captive audience so the prices aren't cheap. 6E for a pint, etc... but they don't give a damn if you take your own food or booze.
We bought two bottles of tinto in Somo and sat and drank them in the bar while eating our supermarket bought crisps. Our Team (just me) came 2nd in the quiz (out of 39 teams).
They cram the bikes in really close, much closer than I've experienced on the Dover ferry. You get put on first in the lowest deck, head first into a dead end, which makes it proper free for all when you're tyring to get off. Getting off you have to wait for all the cars and foot passengers to disembark and passport control is a joke, the bikes have their own queues and each bike must take twice as long as a car to clear, removing helmets, etc..
Today we docked at 11:15, but didn't get off the boat and clear passport control until just after 12:30.
There's a (very) small swimming pool in one of the bars and a cinema, kids entertainments and competitions. The boat out had some kind of whale spotting crew on board and were pointing out the whales and dolphins. I only saw one whale breach and a pod of half a dozen dolphins leaping.
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Re: The Pyrenees/Northern Spain
...and all the bikers we spoke to had been to the Picos. The Pyrenees is sooo last decade!