Chasing the Winter Sun - Brittany Ferries to Santander. In our camper van through northern Spain
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2024
- Happy New Year :-)
Follow us on our Epic Journey from the UK, across the bay of Biscay on the Pont-Aven Brittany Ferry, through Northern Spain, across the magnificent Picos Mountains and into Portugal.
This is the first video of our mammoth 3 month trip into Spain and Portugal in our motorhome.
We apologise for the late upload of our first video on this trip (if you've been following us on Facebook ( / wadskistravel ) or Instagram - / wadskitravel you will have seen that we started this trip back in October. This first video should have been uploaded several weeks ago but due to technical problems (basically our computer disk crashed) we have been unable to edit these videos until now.
We hope you enjoy this one and rest assured there are many more to come very soon.
Sue and Steve xx
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Thanks for taking us on this journey. Amazing roads and scenery. Your videos are always nicely edited. Looking forward to the next instalment. BTW, stray animals usually bring food to me... I haven't figured out why???
Thank you so much for your lovely comment Ian. Our next video will be coming soon. Thank you for watching and subscribing :-)
Thanks for sharing guys 😁
Thank you Mark. Really appreciate your kind comment 😊
spooky. im buying my first MH later this year and i mentioned to a customer today that around November this year im off on a 90 day trip with new MH to escape this horrible UK winter which is currently only 3 degrees max to Southern Spain to warm up my body. Living in Totnes and a Plymothian ive used Brittany Ferries lots travelling to my former holiday home in Brittany where road network was a joy.. Never done the Santander ferry before so looking forward to the experience. Glad i caught your vlog thanks have subscribed and look forward to your next vlog. Enjoy your winter sun experience. Be interested in further feedback of the ferry experience, roads in Spain park ups etc. Regards Gray
Hi Graham, thank you for your kind comment and for subscribing, we're glad you're enjoying our videos. The ferry crossing was OK, we usually drive through France which we do prefer as we love the French countryside and villages but if the weather is a bit cold we prefer to get to Spain via the ferry and head south as quickly as possible.
The roads in Spain are some of the best in Europe, most of the motorways are now toll free too.
There isn't as many overnight park ups in Spain as there are in France but we never struggle to find somewhere. We use the park4night and searchforsites apps mostly.
We'll be putting our next video out later this week and we always include our overnight parking locations - including what3words which we find really useful.
Enjoy your trip in November and thank you again for subscribing. 😊 Safe travels. Sue and Steve
Nice start of the tour, and a pleasure to see a bit of Sun...BTW where’s doggie?
Thank you David :-) Unfortunately we lost Buddy last May, he was 15 and had a wonderful life. We still miss him every day 😢. Thank you for watching our videos and subscribing, the next episode will be here soon. Best wishes, Sue and Steve
Sorry to hear that, there become part of your family. Still a good innings, and plenty of memories. Look forward to the rest of the tour.@@wadskistravelchannel
Do you think an 11year old, 5year old and 3 year old would be bored on this Santander to south Spain route?
Hello @Gareth_NocturnaGarage,
I honestly don't know. I guess it depends on how well they travel. We have three kids too (all grown up now) but I'm not sure I'd take them on this kind of trip as it was a lot of driving. Our kids needed constant attention when they were younger and wouldn't sit in the van for that long - but of course yours may be quite content to sit and look out of the window and not start crying.
We didn't stop in any sites that were family friendly on this trip though and of course there's loads of family orientated sites in Spain and Portugal. I guess if you stayed in sites with swimming pools and other things to amuse them you'd be OK? Remember it's over 2000 miles round trip using the route we took.
I think if we were taking a young family we'd probably book a site with pools and activities where we knew they'd enjoy it and use the main motorways in Spain to get there as quickly as possible.
Hope this helps and thank you for watching our videos 😊
Sue and Steve