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I used to organise foreign jaunts for friends from the VFR Club on a regular basis and we’d spoken about a tour of Spain around 10 years ago, but never got around to it.
However, as neither my wife or I had been before (bar a brief foray into the Spanish side of the Pyrenees in 2007), I booked the ferry to Santander and planned a relaxing trip. We didn’t want to ride mega miles everyday and wanted to take in the landscape and old cities, castles and cathedrals.
As the ferry didn’t leave Plymouth until Sunday afternoon, we plodded down the Welsh border on the A483 on Saturday, before nipping round Bristol on the motorway and stopping in Burnham-on-Sea overnight.
Spain 2013 930 (2) by spnorm, on Flickr
Sunday morning dawned warm and sunny again, so after a tedious ride across Exmoor (too much traffic) we had a break on Dartmoor before boarding the Pont Aven in Plymouth for the sailing to Santander.
Spain 2013 933 (2) by spnorm, on Flickr
Spain 2013 936 (2) by spnorm, on Flickr
Spain 2013 956 (2) by spnorm, on Flickr
I used to organise foreign jaunts for friends from the VFR Club on a regular basis and we’d spoken about a tour of Spain around 10 years ago, but never got around to it.
However, as neither my wife or I had been before (bar a brief foray into the Spanish side of the Pyrenees in 2007), I booked the ferry to Santander and planned a relaxing trip. We didn’t want to ride mega miles everyday and wanted to take in the landscape and old cities, castles and cathedrals.
As the ferry didn’t leave Plymouth until Sunday afternoon, we plodded down the Welsh border on the A483 on Saturday, before nipping round Bristol on the motorway and stopping in Burnham-on-Sea overnight.
Spain 2013 930 (2) by spnorm, on Flickr
Sunday morning dawned warm and sunny again, so after a tedious ride across Exmoor (too much traffic) we had a break on Dartmoor before boarding the Pont Aven in Plymouth for the sailing to Santander.
Spain 2013 933 (2) by spnorm, on Flickr
Spain 2013 936 (2) by spnorm, on Flickr
Spain 2013 956 (2) by spnorm, on Flickr