{"id":1483,"date":"2016-05-16T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T09:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2016-05-26T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T15:21:18","slug":"eurotrip-5-2016-day-44-bilbao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 5, 2016 \u2013 Day 44, Bilbao&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1473\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160515_182541-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Packing up...\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160515_182541-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160515_182541-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160515_182541-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160515_182541-767x431.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packing up from our ample pitch at El Astral&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We left Camping El Astral at Tordesillas around 1:00pm for what turned out to be around a 4.5 hour journey to the Port of Bilbao. Our crossing was the Cap Finistere at 10:30 on the Tuesday morning which we had been very fortunate to reserve given our original crossing on the Pont Aven had been cancelled due to her being in dry dock having a broken propellor fixed.<\/p>\n<p>We were concerned about where to stay the Monday evening in order to guarantee arriving at the port for 09:00 the next day. Many campsites restrict vehicular movement between 12:00am and 08:00am.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1481\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160516_174721-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Bilbao camping...\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160516_174721-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160516_174721-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160516_174721-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160516_174721-767x431.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bilbao camping&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had read that at Bilbao, we would be able to check in the previous evening and then stay on the van portside overnight. This worked out really well. There was a bar \/ cafe open during part of the evening and early the next morning for breakfast. We had a decent nights sleep on dock side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Camping El Astral at Tordesillas around 1:00pm for what turned out to be around a 4.5 hour journey to the Port of Bilbao. Our crossing was the Cap Finistere at 10:30 on the Tuesday morning which we had been very fortunate to reserve given our original crossing on the Pont Aven had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eurotrip 5, 2016 \u2013 Day 44, Bilbao&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-europe-spain","category-2016-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}