A wiggle on, yes. Unless you want to revel in the scenery on the N621, including a paddle in the gorges due to the heat not experienced before, by Spanish virgins last September. With a coffee stop after exiting the Motorway at Unquera, I think we managed the 64 miles to Potes in about 3 hours!
We stayed at Hotel Picos de Europa in Potes. Had an extra night there (3 in total) as we enjoyed the area that much. Loved Potes, beautiful place, hotel quiet to say it's on the "main" road. Bars, restaurants, the buildings, the bridges, river, the backdrop of the peaks....just perfect for us. The people were very welcoming too. Obviously as it was our first visit, we were easily pleased. But hoping to return there this year. Do what others have advised in the past and which we , cos we know better, didn't and that's don't try to "do it all"
We did....Picos, Pyrenees hopping, Millau, Tarn de Gorge, Vercors. Fantastic but better enjoyed if we'd tried to do half that. Bolloxed by the time we got to Dieppe after 14 days.
Spain eh; what a place. Everything about the place was fantastic.........and then we hit Newhaven for a slog up north late Saturday night....we knew we were back when we could smell the sewage as we rode through the south, then stopping at a Motorway services somewhere in England to find only 1 out of a dozen pumps not taped off and one poor old woman trying to make coffees for the queue of people that stretched out the door. Hot snacks? You gotta be fekkin joking. Mars bars and that's it. Yes, we were back in a Third World country for sure.
Love the Picos, thanks for your pictorial reminders
Been going since 1994 and visited every couple of years since then
Yours sounded a great trip
