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Santander Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Santander, Spain and Canary Islands
Spain Day 20 - Mas Amigos
This is a top pick! ... . We share laughs, and a great lunch overlooking a beach near El Sardinero (the most popular beach in Santander). Great food. Great new friends. ... And what makes lunch even better ... Fernando and Elena insist on paying! Woo hoo! THANK YOU!! And the ...
Spain Day 17 - Friends from home & Santander
This is a top pick! ... across the street at the bar. Bob and Rachel been running NON-STOP on their whirlwind tour of all of Southern Spain and so the quiet tranquility of our little village is just what the doctor ordered. I head in to work for two hours, and ...
Santander: Altamira to Guggenheim
This is a top pick! ... and despairing at the thought of having to sleep rough again. Fortunately there was an accommodation booking service at the Santander bus station and they saved the day. Rooms were still pretty pricey, but they were available and I grabbed what ended ...
Viva Espana
This is a top pick! Check out the palm trees - have we accidentally arrived in the ...
Santander
The Boat that Rocked
... we awoke to calm waters and sunshine and eating breakfast watched as the hazy mountains of Northern Spain came slowly into view. From the deck, we watched Santander come into view (Plymouth it isn't), long fingers of sand forming miles of beautiful ...
Bye bye Bigwig.
We returned to Santander, perfectly timing our arrival to not miss our ferry across the Bay of Biscay back to England. We of course were nervous about being caught with our dusty expired visas. But we soon came to realize once again that no one even ...
My Trip to and in Santander
... They were chocolate chip cookies dipped in white chocolate! Mmmmm! I was able to order just fine. When we arrive in Santander it was beautiful!!!!!! I took lots of pictures! We did arrive an hour early, so my host mother was late. They say ...
Going home for Grandpa
My grandfather has passed away. Going home for 5 days to be wiht family. Updates ...
Santander - The Real Spain?
... and well stuff. We caught a friendly little bus to Santander, "45 minutes more or less" says Ali. 2 hours later we get to Santander and it seems a change or province lead to a change of luck! Straight from the bus terminal this dude approached and was ...
Santander
Finally arrived in Santander after getting three trains, two ferry boats and a bus. Thatoe my idea of travelling. As I'm travelling with a bike it saves me the hastle of dismantling it, reassembling it and checking for damage. The Pont de Aven docked ...
Santander and some suspense. . .
Right now, I´m sitting in Santander, faced with a decision. But first, the past day. I got a bus into Santander, and then one into Liencres to the west, which had a few supposedly great breaks in the Parque Naturale Dunes de Lincres. One the road to ...
Back, and Tired!
... me to stay, and the girls I would go with have differnt places to go and no plans of anything to do/see. Not to mention the 100 euro train ticket! No thank you! Chilling with my friends tomorrow. We will eat pizza and watch Ditry dancing. Relaxing is ...
Santander, Bilbao and a flashback to a Welsh road
... brilliant as it looks. Dave ran along the seafront early Wed, lots of dogs and their people out. Westies are a very popular dog in Santander and Bilbao it seems. It's a very busy very fast motorway to Bilbao - chanting "keep on the right, keep on the ...
A random choosing...
... be back. But, I know I'm human and there's limitations. So, I made my time in Santander a relaxing one... I explored the city which had beautiful shops and restaurants like so many of the European countries I've seen. I took a walk to a ...
On to Santander
... 9 people from our group, me included, leave for Santander. From Santander we fly to Rome. It should be a pretty interesting trip. Santander is located on the Bay of Biscay so I should get some pretty nice shots of the bay, which I here is gorgeous. ...
Santander
... for 4 nights. Then we stayed another night so I emailed and changed it to 3 nights. Then 2. FInally 1. So i had one night in Santander, and not a heck of a lot of idea about what to do. I had very odd directions to the hostel as well. It simply said road ...
Ferry to Spain
The following morning we boarded our ferry to Santander, Spain. It's a 19-hour crossing so we had a cabin to sleep in. The small windowless room sleeps two people in bunks that pull down from the ceiling. Each cabin has a bathroom and there is also a ...
Santander
... . We met up with Elissa, Carlas Spanish friend and got drunk with all her buddies. They cooked for us alot and showed us around the city. Santander is a uni town so Aussies are plentiful. We caught up with Doogle and Candy who we met in Prague and Jimmy ...
Santander, Im never going to San Sebastian again
We rolled into town on a TRAIN this time, so much easier. Santander is a beautiful coastal town and very relaxing which we need it has been a long hard week or so. When we rocked in there was an owner of a hotel at the station who gave us a cheap hotel ...
The rain in Spain
... directions in broken Spanish from a disinterested shop-keeper. I went and looked over her shoulder and we decided to try and negotiate Santander together. She was going to be living in Santander for six months or so on some kind of exchange ...
Con los Cántabros
Today we left Madrid and headed due North to Santander (Cantabria) through Valladolid, Reinosa and Torrelavega. The Spanish countryside is beautiful. When we reached Santander the temperature was 68 degrees and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. The ...
Tickets Please
... and wait our turn, so we do. It only takes 20 minutes this time but now we have all our train tickets for Spain. Sandwiches are purchased to sustain us on the journey. Shelagh’s vegetarian sandwich contains ham! The train leaves on time but ...
Onze belevenis in Baskenland
... wilden liggen. Gelukkig hebben we het wrijfhout aanboord en kunnen we het te proberen. Het lukt wonderwel. We gaan verder naar Santander. Maar we vertrekken niet vroeg in de ochtend, omdat we al verschillende keren pas wind kregen in de middag. We ...
De tourist
... fietsen daar net in. Onderweg nog een keer in een andere trein en weer zes uur later, 20.15, komen we aan in Santander. Nu zoeken naar een slaapplek. Verschillende hotels af maar die hebben geen plek voor de fietsen. Uiteindelijk komen we bij ...
Adios Espana
... , maar nu is het voorbij. De magie van de Camino is weg, we zijn op weg naar huis en nu vieren we nog even vakantie in Santander. Straks gaan we op de boot en kijken wat Engeland ons te bieden heeft. Dank je wel, Spanje. Het ga je goed. Hopelijk tot ...
Rorschack
... beaches of Santander were crowded with pasty-white Brits, baking next to bronzed Spaniards. I had enough of that in the Canary Islands a few years ago! Though I suppose this was an aberration - it seems like tourism is way down ...