Here’s a confession – this is actually “take two” of this specific travel tale.
Originally, I had started writing about how a relaxing week-long outdoorsy holiday in Spain had evolved into a mega summer road trip starting in Barcelona, spending a few days in scenic mountain villages and then taking an “eclipsed-sized detour” to San Sebastian. And back again.
Then I realised, just like my itinerary planning and driving skills, that it was all getting a bit too chaotic and veering away from what I really wanted to talk about: and that is the Spanish Pyrenees.
Had I continued venturing towards the road trip storyline, you would have read a lot about spending hours behind the wheel as we criss-crossed our way through Catalonia, Aragon, Navarre, and the Basque Country – where we ended up to watch the eclipse on 12 August. Not a bad tale, but that’s one for another day, maybe.
While Barcelona and San Sebastian are brilliant cities with so much to see and do, it’s only right that the focus here is on slow travel in a lovely part of Spain that I had never been to before.
