Monday 7 October: Santander

 We have to pack up in the rain which is a shame. The weather driving to Santander is atrocious. Torrential rain and flooded roads. Thank goodness there isn’t much traffic. It takes about 4 hours and ironically the weather in Santander is much better and we are able to walk around in the dry. We check in and leave the van in the ferry queue. Everything is shut of course including the Art Gallery, the Cathedral and the clothes shop that I’d hoped to visit! Nothing opened until 5pm and we have to be back at the ferry queue by then. We have lunch in a restaurant recommended by some friends.  Great setting and atmosphere and buzzing with life when we arrive. Too buzzing really as we get the last table and order the wrong things so it feels a bit disappointing. We walk around the old market and the streets for a while before returning at 5pm. Typically the queue is endless and we are probably one of the last to board after 2 hours of waiting! We’re also parked down in the bowels on a hideous lower deck surrounded by hundreds of motorbikes. Anyway once on deck we have glorious views of the bay as we sail out at sunset. Fairly rough but I’m coping. Nice buffet supper before bed. Feels a bit like sleeping on a park bench. 









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