Itinerary #1: The North of Spain

A lo que vinimos!!!

Tomorrow morning (actually today since it is already 2 o'clock in the morning on Wednesday Feb 21st) I leave to Pamplona. This will be my first stop on this trip to the norther part of Spain. I will be catching an 8 o'clock bus and arriving in Pamplona at around 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The cost of traveling by bus in Spain is very reasonable and you can save a lot of money when compared to the train fares. This is something I discovered recently. The thing is that in order to get a good fare on a train you need to book your tickets a couple of weeks in advance while when you travel by bus is the same tariff if you buy the ticket weeks in advance or the day before. Ok....so I have made up this itinerary based on recommendations from friends and other people I've met/talked to at random about my plans of going to the north of Spain. Some of these cities are also places that have always intrigued me and that I have been wanting to go to for some time now. And even though it may seem aggressive, the truth of the matter that some of the places are small towns which can be seen in just one day...or half a day.

So here is the itinerary

• Thursday - Pamplona (Navarra)
• Friday & Saturday - San Sebastian/Donostia (the Vasque Country)
• Sunday and half of Monday - Bilbao (the Vasque Country)
• half of Monday & Tuesday - Santander (Cantabria)
• Wednesday - Gijon & Oviedo (Asturias)
• Thursday - Salamanca (Castilla y Leon)

I'm not taking my laptop with me (actually I have decided to travel very light and I'm only taking my backpack) so I'm not sure how much I will be able to connect to the internet. I will probably try to connect to an internet cafe here and there to finish booking some of the hotels /hostels I will be staying at...so I will try to give a brief update on my whereabouts and will definitely post lots of pictures once I come back to Madrid