Santander

We wrote this city off on our list of places to visit in Spain, but we couldn’t avoid it seeing as it is somewhat midway to our next stop. We arrived in town pretty late and didn’t park until around 11pm., something Julie and I are commenting on a lot lately is our inability to avoid driving at night. Before we came on this trip we both agreed that there is no point to drive at night as we miss most of the landscape/towns and we should be resting for the next day too. However, ever since we left Regensburg for Dresden, we have managed to drive at night pretty much every other day or so. We think lately it’s mostly due to daylight savings time. Anyway, we ended up driving around Santander looking for a spot we could both agree on only to return to the first one we found. Julie doesn’t feel as comfortable free camping in Spain as she did in France or Germany, I believe it’s because we are doing it alone and the crime rate is slightly higher. We stayed the night without any issue. While entering a roundabout, Julie and I couldn’t help but laugh in seeing a man on horse galloping around the roundabout. Something we never thought we would see but were glad we did. We managed to get up early for a change so we could arrive in Santiago de Compostela before 7pm. This didn’t happen though; we ended up pulling over along the highway (think hwy 11) to sleep in the parking lot of a pension. We’ve heard rumors that Spain is warm in the winter time, so could someone tell us why we woke up with frost on our windows and frozen water in the sink?