October 2nd We woke up to a rather dull day, it having rained quite heavily overnite….but we need to move on; fire up the stove: coffee, croissants, fruit and we are off. Rather gloomy with rain threatening but not bad and slowly the clouds lift and the sun comes out just as we arrive at…Continue Reading “Canal du Midi > Day #2……..to Le Somail”
October 1st A crisp beautiful autumn day is served up along with a copious breakfast, perfect fare for the challenges ahead: ……and we are off to get provisions for the trip. Got everything we need and it is time to check-in with Le Boat….no struggles with French, these are Brits running the operation. We get…Continue Reading “Canal du Midi > Day #1……….downstream or upstream hmmm!”
September 30th Got up to another beauty of a day (it had rained during the nite….perfect timing for the rain to well, rain) had a full breakfast with our very chatty owner….she did acknowledge she loved to gab with guests….all this in French. Finally manged to extricate ourselves from her clutches, hit the local car…Continue Reading “Ardiege to Rieux – Minervois………Haggerty Pick-up en route”
September 29th Today we are leaving San Sebastien (Donostia) and heading back to France our wonderful stay in Espana over….we really would like to come back…adios! Another beauty of a day, clear skies and temperatures going into the 20’s, as we motor down the autopiste to Vic d’Aurbait, where my colleague from BNP Paribas lives. This…Continue Reading “San Sebastien to Ardiege …….via Vic d’Aurbait”
September 27th Woke up to a crisp sunny morning, packed and left sans breakfast…..as we wanted to get to Bilbao asap…. A nice and fast drive as we were on the autopiste, so arrived close to the Guggenheim by 10AM and had coffee and some morning tapas. A pleasant downtown area with of course the…Continue Reading “Santalina del Mar to San Sebastien (Donostia) ….and day trip to Biaritz, France”
September 26th Had a great nights sleep, breakfast was comprehensive, hard-boiled eggs, ham, cheese, yoghurt and 4 breakfast cakes etc…..the lady owner being quite sure to make sure we knew that the cakes were homemade…..pretty good for 45 Euro per nite. Car is parked in front of the Casa …..these rural overnight places are really…Continue Reading “Coroa to Santilana del Mar……more Picos de Europa”
September 25th Woke up to a coolish grey morning and without any further ado (i.e no breakfast) got the car which was parked in the port and set off… ….after about 1.5 hours of quick driving on the autopiste we stopped in Luanca on the coast, which is a good-looking fishing village (actually nicer than…Continue Reading “Cudilliero to Coroa …..from the coast to the Picos de Europa”
September 24th …..a bit of a late start as breakfast was not served until 9AM….very nice lots of different eats to stock up on… like we need those additional calories…a few pics of the dining room where we also had dinner last night: From here we charted a course to our first stop of the…Continue Reading “Santa Christina to Cudilliero….Heading for the Atlantic Coast”
September 23rd Had a nice breakfast at the Parador…quite a few tour groups so felt a bit like mornings when we were on the tour to China. Lots of newspapers, unfortunately all in Spanish, so the selection was left largely untouched. In any event, off we went under clear skies and a rising temperature predicted…Continue Reading “Leon to Santiago de Compostella”
September 22nd Time to go ….we leave without a formal breakfast and are soon on the highway aiming first for Burgos and then Leon, where we will spend the night. The day is cool, cloudy and misty although the predictions are for sun…. We are following the route of St. James on our version of…Continue Reading “Briones to Burgos …..On Our Way to Santiago de Compostella”