Northern Spain

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Originally Posted by rubberduckofdeath

Hi all,

I'm considering taking a short trip with some friends along the coast of Northern Spain and the Pyrenees - any tips for place to go / stay etc?

Cheers!

Short trip & Northern Spain....

Compared to a trip to Alaska it probably is.....

Only tip I can suggest is leave on a Friday and take the train down as far as Avignon. Saves tyres, petrol and stress. Saturday morning you're nice & fresh (unless you drank too much the night before - me never ) and ready to go....

Originally Posted by rubberduckofdeath

Haha, cheers Steve; I was hoping you'd respond to this one!

I'm looking at not riding through France down to the South because TBH the last time I did it was a bit of a slow ball ache, not much fun.

If you take the Ferry to Bilbao it takes like 2-3 days or something... Eats into you riding time, which is why we use the train. We take it down to Nice and spend a 2 or 3 nights in various towns which means we have days riding without all the kit on the bikes.

You could, if you wanted to, take the train down and have a couple of days riding plus 2 days riding back, or maybe train down and ferry back, if you have the time.

Riding to/from Spain when you have limited time is a pain, which is why I've never done it.

I will do it soon though, take 2 weeks and ride down through the Alsace, then Jurra, the Alps along the south coast of France and into Spain, and then onto Andalucia Mabe even take in a beer with that Peter Henry bloke...

Santander and The picas europas or something. The ferry takes a day from Plymouth.

Really good with good roads. The weather is cooler too than the south.

Spain is Biiiiiig so everything is quite a distance.

Originally Posted by The Basket

Santander and The picas europas or something. The ferry takes a day from Plymouth.

Really good with good roads. The weather is cooler too than the south.

Spain is Biiiiiig so everything is quite a distance.

Picos de Europa is what it is called....super sweet....

And as per our discussion earlier, here's the start of a thread that my friend has started about his trip to Spain- not a 4 day trip, but may be a taster!!

http://www.sv-portal.com/forums/show...288#post432288

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Taking the Portsmouth/Bilbao ferry for first time. 36hrs. Leaves 9.15pm friday, arrives sunday 8.00am.

Last time was the Plymouth/Santander. 24hrs leaves 8am approx saturday and arrives Sunday 8am.

No need this time for a night in B&b in Plymouth after charging down from Glasgow 500miles or summit. Depends where you are in the UK.

Its only 400miles from the Spanish ports to Barcelona via Zaragoza(great city) Easy in a day across the plains.

Sierra De la Demanda and around Soria is good biking territory. Picos is the same but bigger and higher.

Even the motorway around Santander/bibao/San Sebastian will fry your noggin. You got to love Spanish road builders. We are paying for them so you might as well use them!

The planning is half the fun