We left Pamplona on Friday night, going on a road trip in this one:

At about 11pm, we finally arrived in Santander (after stop-and-go on the highway between Bilbao and Santander). Our charming GPS-lady led us to a campground (later, she started having some problems distiguishing between left and right, but anyway she helped a lot …). We build up our tent and enjoyed the rest of the night with some bubbly wine.

After a bit of a difficult night (it was quite loud on the campground, with people constantly walking past our tent), we went for a stroll around Santander on Saturday:

The beach right next to the campground…

The “raqueros” in the harbour of Santander, representing kids that used to dive looking for coins tourists threw into the sea.

Yet again, there was a “fiesta” happening – this time “Semana Grande”.

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And they also have an Australian Pub in Santander .

A tiny little house sorrounded by all its huge friends…

The beach of Santander

After all this walking we had a really hard time finding a campground that night. We tried it on about 6 different ones. They were all full or then one didn’t even exist (failure of Mrs. GPS). In the end we did find one, in a little village close to Torrelavega. Going out wasn’t really possible that night, as we had to be “home” with the car at 23:30. Therefore, we decided to have dinner in Torrelavega (we ate a superb salad with goat cheese, walnuts and berries – what a combination!) and after that went back to the camp ground.

On Sunday, we drove to Liencres, a small city with excellent beaches around it, and had a relaxing beach day.