Breakfast with Giles and Pauline provided the first porridge for a month. Also enjoying a mug of tea, what a pleasure. Was planning on...

Last breakfast in Spain. It is a stunning guest house, shame about the owner, perhaps it’s just a problem of communication. The only...

Had a new experience in Spain this morning - breakfast in the daylight. Not under any time pressure so decided I would wait until I could...

In case any of you think I'm just making up stories to have something to write about now, let me say right from the start that what you...

Up a lot of the night weighing up the options. So many tabs open on my chrome browser, lose track of what I'm doing. Weather is getting...

Eggs and bacon, Spanish style for breakfast. I'm the only one sat there, so this poor woman is working just to cook my breakfast. Surely...

Hotel Santa Rosa, great hotel, great breakfast and they liked my bicycle. Shame I didn't book them originally and save all the...

It's a conundrum. It's had the most spectacular location of anywhere I've stayed this trip. But it had no wifi internet and no breakfast....

Sorry you're getting this a day late - no interweb at the hotel I stayed in at Ribadesella. Breakfast didn’t disappoint, definitely 4...

Each evening, one of my tasks is planning the route over the next day in particular, and the next couple of days in general. I'm...

Wake up and for the first time in this trip I've got muscle aches and stiff legs. No breakfast in the hotel, so it's a quick pack up and...

Planned in a much longer ride to Bilbao today to see if I can hack it. Breakfast outside on the hotel terrace. Wasn't expecting this and...

This could be a defining day of the whole trip. If it goes well, I'll press on. If it goes badly, when I reach Bilbao, I'll be on the...

That's a large part of my Spanish vocab used on day one. Top priority on the learning Spanish front was to be able to order coffee, Cafe...

I overdid it at breakfast. To be fair it was probably the best so far. Orange juice, large bowl of decent muesli, with large sliced...

The Hotel Single Fin in Mimizan Plage has been the best stay so far. Great location, room, breakfast, I'd definitely come back here if...

Sit rep on waking up. Kit not quite dry, especially the socks, so more application of hairdryer to try and give them a burst of warmth. I...

I had some visitors in the night. The mossie came back, I now have two bites on my leg to remind me. This morning there were two gigantic...

Big day today as it started with a ferry to cross the Gironde estuary. Destination then just beyond Lac de Hourtin, outside village of...

Weather forecast was for fine, warm day, so went for the full strip off into summer gear. Didn't even need the arm warmers. La Rochelle...