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Our overnight parking in Briviesca was uneventful, in a very uneventful kind of place.

The motorhome Aire was quite high up above the town, next to the bullring and a walk down to the town necessitated a considerable undertaking and unfortunately both Louis and I lacked the motivation to venture down and frankly I don't think there was much there to interest me anyway. 

So we opted for the lazy option.

The Aire may be uninspiring, but it's very popular, we were joined by about 15 other fellow motorhomes, mostly French and Spanish plus a few Germans.

I dare say it's the free parking and services that are the attraction here, and that aspect wasn't lost on me either, lol.

So after a peaceful night we set off north towards the coast around Bilbao.

It was quite a dramatic drive too.

This drive could almost be the Swiss Alps, quite a suprise to me in Spain

Photography credits go to Sue :)

I hadn't appreciate quite high up we were at Briviesca (726 m), but we passed through the Urkiola Parke Naturala which was a fantastic drive.

It could easily have been a drive through the Swiss Alps such was the scenery.

It was also quite a decent, and at one point our noses were assaulted by the whiff of overheating brakes.

So a tea break stop was called for at the bottom in a little town, in order to allow the brakes to have a rest.

We had considered a campsite for tonight so we could have 230 volts to power the air con.

But we awoke to a cooler day than yesterday, with mist on the hills and thin clouds at high altitude.

So instead we opted for another freebie stopover at Lekeitio.

and zoomed in a bit, we're the green flag bottom left corner

It's a very attractive little port town on the coast and has a handy motorhome aire next to a park and Botanical Gardens with a small zoo containing Parrots, Macaws and Peacocks so I'm expecting an early morning call from them tomorrow.

The building seems to be a old folks home with the residents having an evening wander round the gardens.

This isn't the Botanical gardens !

The Peacocks are defying the electric fence and helping themselves in the vegetable garden

We're a bit squeezed on this Aire, rather like the Aire in Segovia I decided to move on from, but unfortunately there aren't many other better options here so we're suffering close neighbours tonight, but I think we'll be ok.

Tomorrow we'll be back in France.