Brother Beaker
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- None past. Camino Del Norte (Aug. 2020)
My son and I are doing the Camino Del Norte on bicycles this summer at the end of July. We are reverse-engineering the trip from SdC and working with what I feel is a very conservative 30 miles/50 kilometers a day for a 10-day trip, which means that we will probably officially kick off somewhere around Santander. We have dates that are not terribly flexible (dictated by my work and his process of discernment).
I was hoping that there would be some bicigrinos that could answer a couple of questions for us:
1. Is Bilbao the best place to fly in/out of?
2. What is the most convenient way to get from Bilbao to Santander?
3. If I decide to transport my bike, is there a place in either Santander or Bilbao that would store the bike box? Or could I ship it ahead to SdC?
4. I like a touring bike with a fairly upright geometry and I am 6'3" (1.90m) tall. Is there any place that one can rent such a thing or do I just bite the bullet and ship? (It looks like that will cost about $150 each way).
I am loving this forum and have no doubt that I will have a ton more questions, but these are some that seem to go with the initial planning stages. Thank you all!
I was hoping that there would be some bicigrinos that could answer a couple of questions for us:
1. Is Bilbao the best place to fly in/out of?
2. What is the most convenient way to get from Bilbao to Santander?
3. If I decide to transport my bike, is there a place in either Santander or Bilbao that would store the bike box? Or could I ship it ahead to SdC?
4. I like a touring bike with a fairly upright geometry and I am 6'3" (1.90m) tall. Is there any place that one can rent such a thing or do I just bite the bullet and ship? (It looks like that will cost about $150 each way).
I am loving this forum and have no doubt that I will have a ton more questions, but these are some that seem to go with the initial planning stages. Thank you all!