We have left the wonderful flat cycle paths of France behind and are now in hilly Spain. Our cycle into San Sebastion was on a dual carraigeway – which is like a motorway but worse as they allow cyclists on there. It is only 4 kms to our camp from San Sebastion, but they didn’t tell us it was up a bloody steep hill! We had to push our loaded bikes up 4 kms!

Now we are rained in at a campground after our first night. It is our first day of rain in our 8 weeks of cycling so I guess it’s not too bad. It was too wet to pack up our tent so we decided to have a rest day and caught the bus into San Sebastion. We are currently enjoying a McWifi and fries (MacDonalds has free internet in Europe).

Below are the blogs from the 13th – 18th June.

Day 41 – 13 June 2011

We camped at the base of this massive sand dune. It is the biggest Dune in Europe.

It was really steep and looked a bit scary to climb so we decided to drink our bottle of red wine before tackling it.

Here’s Mike climbing up:

And Here’s me at the top:

Fantastic view up here:

Climbing down was much more fun

During the day we also saw a couple of turtles

Day 42 – 14 June 2011

This was another day of idyllic cycle paths through forests and beaches.

Day 43 – 15th June 2011

We decided on a rest day today as we were camped beside a lake and the campground was cheap at only 10 euros.

We spent the day doing washing and stocking up on food from the local LIDL (22c beer).

We saw a red squirrel – so cute.

Day44 – 16th June 2011

Today Mike got his second flat tyre of the trip.

Our table set ready for dinner. Our panniers make great seats, and the wine is really cheap here.

day 45 – 17th June 2011

We camped at a really busy campground on the beach. It was full of young surfers and we thought we could be in for a noisy night. It looked like rain so we struggled to make a shelter with a tarp we bought. A couple of girls camping nearby saw us struggling and offered us some poles – which was very helpful.

Day 46 – 18th June 2011

We did a massive 70 kms today. The weather started out rainy and it drizzled on and off during the day, but it was mostly fine. The weather was looking dodgy so we took a cabin in the caravan park. Of course it didn’t rain.