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The day started with cycling through Biarritz and past Surfer´s Paradise, which was very scenic and got all our cameras clicking. It started to get hilly as soon as we got out of town with the hills getting bigger to further South we got.
Drama of the day was when we had to go on the motorway briefly and through a long dark tunnel with Chris screaming all the way.
By mid morning we crossed the bridge which took us out of France and into Spain. It all went past with very little formality and the only way we could tell the change in country was later on when we were greeted with "Hola" instead of "Bonjour".
Andy´s Scran Van was once again, a very welcome break. At this time Warren noticed that one of his tyres had worn out, so set about swapping both his tyres over and replacing the worn out one. Hazel and Gary decided to speed things up by hiding one of the wheels however Gary´s magic tools did come in very handy and soon they were done and we were ready to go...until Mike discovered that he had a flat tyre (the second of the trip so far) so all the tools had to come out yet again.
Just after lunch Bill spotted three ships that he charters for Imerys. This got him so excited that he decided to take us on a shortcut up Mount Algado, our first mountain climb. This wasn´t the nicest of experiences for both Tom and Chris though everyone else seemed to enjoy the challenge. Much to everyone´s surprise Brian and Chris did actually make it to the top on their tandem, which was a great achievement. The descent down the other side was very steep and twisty and left Chris, in the passenger seat of the tandem, with nail marks on the palms of her hands and a rather pale face.
The remainder of the journey followed the coastline at sea level so we soon covered the 10 miles into Zumaia for our nightly stop over. Though quite a sizable new town there wasn´t a restaurant in sight so we frightened the living daylights out of the young girl in the only cafe, as we placed our large order for food. She even had to phone for backup with the cooking and it seemed half the population then came out to see the crazy English.
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