Thursday 6 September 2007

Altamara Caves and Santillana del Mar

Santillana del Mar


WEDNESDAY 15 AUGUST 2007

We set off in Chris’s car for the caves at Altamara, which have some of the oldest and most impressive cave paintings in Europe. The actual caves are only open to researchers as they were being damaged by human breath, but there is a very impressive Museo where there is a full sized recreation of the cave and a fantastic interpretation centre. Tracy, Max and the children joined us and we spent nearly all day there, with a Menu del Dia in the middle. We then went to the medieval village of Santillana del Mar, which has beautiful old buildings but is quite touristy.




Roger and I moved Susannah into the Marina, about 2 kilometres from the city, had a meal with Chris, Jane and Tommy at the yacht club before going back to stay in their caravan for a few nights.

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