Weather: showery, 16º C We confirmed, with ourselves, that we had made the right decision on out choice of hotel as it is very central to the Old Town and museums we wanted to visit. We decided to have breakfast at the hotel then find the tram to the Guggenheim Museum. After an 8 minute saunter down the hill we found the tram station. It then took about 10 minutes to sort out how to purchase tickets from the dispensing machines. No one else came by so we c...

Weather: high cloud, 16º C Mileage: 345 Km; Total 1,840 kms Today we drove from Oviedo via San Vincente de la Barquera and Santillana del Mar to Bilbao. Firstly however we sought out a church but had trouble finding. Part of the problem was finding parking. This was eventually resolved when Bruce parked like a loco – whoops I mean local (picture attached of the car partly across a crosswalk). While searching for the church we noticed a statue up...

Weather: high cloud, 15º C Mileage: 390 Km; Total 1,495 kms Today we drove from Santiago de Compostelo to Oviedo via Lugo. The purpose of stopping in Lugo was to visit the Roman wall around the old part of the city which date from the 3rd century. This wall is just over 2 kms in length, goes all the way around the old city, is entirely walkable and is one of the best preserved in the world. We drove in through one of the ten gates, got a very access...

Weather: raining, low cloud, 12º C Mileage: 220 Km; Total 1,105kms Today we had always planned to go out to the west coast and visit some of the fishing villages. It would have been better if we had done this yesterday and visited Santiago de Compostela today as the low cloud prevented us from seeing the coastline and villages at their best. Our route took us through a number of villages including Porto do Son, Noia, Muros (where we had lunch), Cee and...

Kms: 40 kms; Total 885 kms Weather: Partially overcast with intermittent showers =15º C Very nice breakfast and good selection at the hotel so will be having it here each morning. Set off for the Santiago Cathedral, the end point for the pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago. First we had to find a car park. As it turned out the city is flush with them and the charges are not that bad. The one we found was about 1km walk from the cathedral and we paid &...