The ferry crossing was not great, the channel and around the North East coast of France had a swell that was pretty frequent causing the boat to bounce up and down as well as roll side to side, I wasn’t actually sick, but I felt pretty rough. The Bay of Biscay was much calmer, but to be honest I was out of sorts for the rest of the trip.
View from the cabin included lots of gannets.
There were some dolphins as well, but they weren’t so easy to photo!
I was the last bike on and while everyone was waiting assuming they would loop round to leave the way we came on, I decided sod that turned my bike round and ended up first bike off!
I soon discovered that North East Spain has some nice beaches.
There weren’t many photo opportunities, though I am annoyed I did not turn round and find somewhere to park the bike to take pictures of a small vineyard, I assumed after seeing one I would see more…I didn’t.
I discovered that many villages in the Basque region have one of these:
While I was having coffee in one of the small villages I was even taught a little Basque! I think it might have been that my Spanish was so bad the woman figured I may as well struggle with another language.
Today’s route had a variety of different types of road some good, some full of potholes, temperature peaked at 35C, but soon I was nearing my destination with the fuel light blinking, good job I planned my fuel stop on Google…
It looked like this place had not been open for some time. Fortunately it was only a few miles back to the previous one…which was still open.
Not much to say about Burguete, it is a small village and there is not much going on.
The local cafe charges 2 euros 70 cents for a small beer, the hotel I am staying charges 2 euros for a large beer (at least double the size), tourist tax in the cafe? It wasn’t even anything exotic (San Miguel), I did consider telling him I’d see him again next Tuesday, but figured it probably does not translate very effectively.
Interesting coincidence…while in Key West recently we went to the Hemingway House museum, in Burguete:
Oh and they have damns here:
That’s it for now.
