Friday 1st January 2010

Woke up, feeling a little worse for wear, to a lovely day with surfers already out catching the waves. After some food and tea decided we felt almost human again so headed for a walk. The day before we had driven up the hill and found a walk that went over some rocks out to a small island with a chapel on just off the coast. This would be a good start to the new year, but by the time we had drove up the hill ready for our walk the rain had started! So we waited for a bit for it to pass and maybe had a little nap, to conserve the energy of course, but the rain kept coming. Decided we would just head for Bilbao city instead.

After driving a few times round the city to find a parking spot to visit the old town and have something to eat. We could only find parking in what seemed a dodgy area a very long walk away from where we wanted to be and the rain kept coming down. So as it was already going dark decided to head out of the city, to a motorhome stop from our book in Miranda De Ebro and get something to eat there or along way. We found the motorhome Aire (seems like Spain has a few) on the outskirts of the town besides the river, it was not as nice as it sounds. After walking round the town tired and then driving round we finally found a take away pizza place, we had kept seeing the delivery bikes for. Turned out the pizza wasn’t that great, but food was needed.