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I've finally found time to sit down with some maps and work out where the hell we're going for our six week tour in two weeks' time (hurrah for unemployment). We'd decided on winding down France and heading over the Pyrenees, and I'm really keen to swing by Barcelona because I love it, but we've been a bit vague after that - at one point I was looking at trying to get down to Seville and back up but I'm starting a new job at the end of August so that looks a bit ambitious. Having spent a long time google streetviewing vast expanses of emptiness in the middle of Spain, we've come to the conclusion that riding the Camino del Santiago (or at least as much of it as is possible to do on road) looks like a pretty good bet, so I think we're going to ride down to Barcelona, then head up and meet it at Logroño, follow it to Santiago, and then follow the coast up and round to Santander, possibly dipping into the Picos de Europa and nipping over to Bilbao/San Sebastian depending on how much time we have at the end. Looks like it's going to be just shy of 3000 miles of riding all in - 42 days, 32 riding days, 10 days spare (either for riding or for lazing around on a beach trying to even out our tan lines).
Anyone done the Camino? I'm currently working my way through this:
which seems very good - maps out every stage (literally; each stage is only about 40km) and says which towns/villages have fresh water, shops, campsites, other accommodation etc.