on 12/14/03 12:22 PM, Parker, Jeremy at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Thanks for suggestions Michael.
> How far west of Santander are Santillana del Mar and Alta Mira?
> It's our finish point because the ferry back to the UK leaves from there.
> Jrery.
>
I'd estimate ca. 25 km from the scale in our Cadogan guide to Northern
Spain--a good, but not great, guide to the area.  By the way, if you are
driving along the coast, St Jean de Luz is a nice French Basque
village--although a bit touristy-- and an interesting comparison to the
villages in Spain.  In case you haven't heard, northern Spain is more
industrial than the south and it was a bit startling to us--being from
Alaska-to find large rock quarries, cement factories, and wood pulp plants
scattered about otherwise beautiful scenery.  Worth reading before you go is
Mark Kurlansky's "Basque History of the World".

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