Day 3 Saturday 19/09/09

Spain

Docked at Bilbao on time and disembarked into light rain. Drove to what we thought was Matienzo but even with John hurtling round the quiet village looking for “Pedro’s bar” on his bike, we were none the wiser in finding the camp site. Finally we checked a map that Emma printed off from the Matienzo cave website and realised that there was another Matienzo 15 miles away! Once in the correct Matienzo we found the German bar described in the write-up and set-up camp (having discovered that there is no Pedro’s bar!) and it started to rain.

We met Pete (Pedro) in the bar at night and agreed to meet the next morning to arrange a caving trip. The rain did not stop through the night and we awoke to find our tents “afloat”. It was decided to knock the caving trip on the head and escape to a sunnier climate.