Day 4 Sunday 20/09/09

Spain


Having driven away from Matienzo with a Land Rover full of wet kit, the rain soon stopped. The plan was to visit some show caves on our way south. The first cave was close to Matienzo and contained some prehistoric cave art. We walked up to Cueva de Covalanas and paid our 3 euros. We were taken into the cave to see some amazing paintings that were 20,000 years old and yet very clear and easy to make out. Unfortunately cameras were not allowed in the cave.
Drove down to Palencia and found a Hostal (cheap hotel) but spent an hour trying to find somewhere to park the Land Rover and bike. Once we had parked and locked up and walked back to the Hostal, there was parking space outside the place – so we moved the vehicles again! We got a triple room with Wifi for 54 euros and it gave us chance to dry kit that got soaked the night before and catch up on emails and the blog.