Spain in January. We are actually here!

To Spain in January.

"I reckon Tanya it is 43 years since I last sailed across the Bay of Biscay."

We were in our doggy friendly cabin onboard Cap Finistere as she ferried us across the millpond of a sea toward Spain. Very different from 43 years ago when I recall being on the viewing deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle watching below me the bow of the flight deck, itself 50 or 60 feet above the water, bury itself in the front of another storm lashed wave.

Memories of youth, of fearlessness and of how fortunate I am never to have suffered any sort of sea or travel sickness.

Bilbao at last, and apart from missing an exit sign and ending up at the UK bound check in gate where I was kindly U-turned around and pointed in the right direction, all went well.

With the help of a downloaded Google map (thank you Richard.) we were soon safely tucked up just over the hill at the beach resort of La Arena.

The weather was damp and cool which this morning helped 'the plan'. Yes Steve now has a plan. That is why tonight we are wild parked by a stack of big square straw bales on a rather good farm track in the hills above .... Well actually I don't know. I can see that there is a small village below me. We came through it and onto this track but I was following Mrs sat nav while absorbing all the sights and I missed the name of the village completely.

Ahhh! It is Aminon. Just asked Mrs sat nav.

'The plan' is now to head across Spain to the Med coast and a firmer guarantee of mild and sunny weather. The town of Soria was selected as being on that route and Mrs sat nav was duly given instructions to take me there using mainly secondary roads. Fun it is. Fast travelling it is not. Especially as Mrs sat nav in Spain seems to take great delight in regarding unpaved pot hole riven tracks as secondary roads. Couple that with the fact of nearly all pedestrian crossings being atop giant sleeping policeman which Sadie loves as long as its at crawl speed. Well you get the picture don't you. Steve Tanya and Sadie will get there, but ever so slowly!

Tonight though is fine. Mrs sat nav was turned off half way up this agricultural track and here we are safely perched for the night. It is dry, 18 degrees and the day has been a mixture of cloud and sunshine. That will do me nicely thank you.