Day 1 - Here We Go Again
Sunday 10th July 2016 Ready for the off Seasoned readers of these blogs will recall that Mick and I didn't really get good value from last year's tour in the Picos de Europa mountains of Northern Spain. The rain set in on our first evening out of Santander and continued pretty much without respite for the next few days. Mountain passes were enshrouded in cloud as we tiptoed over the passes, and the valley roads were drenched and treacherous. After a couple of days we gave up on this beautiful part of the world and hightailed it into the Pyrenees and over into sunny France. We always reckoned we would have to give it another try and so here we go again, heading over the Bay of Biscay on the flagship of the Brittany Ferries fleet, the Pont-Avon, en route from Plymouth to Santander. The Pont Avon (photo from Brittany Ferries website) We are accompanied on this trip by Mick's son Sean on his GS, making his first trip abroad on a bike. It will be a ch