Greetings from Bilbao

Daniel, Ben and I have reached Bilbao the others are somewhere behind us we lost contact yesterday but hope to meet up again today. After sleeping rough 2 nights ago we stayed at a hostel in Gurnika the night before last and set off late about 1pm (after looking around town, Tree of Gurnika, Peace Museum etc). We managed to split up on the outskirts and I walked by myself for a few hours until I ran into the boys. We walked until dusk and then found a pleasant hostal with individual rooms, bathrooms, bikes to ride to the local restaurant etc Bloody luxury!! I hope the others didn´t have to camp out again. Hopefully we´ll meet up today, I´ve left messages on the walk (chalk messages on the road etc) as we can´t get Ray´s mobile - hopeing they´re not too pissed of with us! We must have walked 150km now only 700 to go!!! Yesterday I dumped my tent and a zip up hoody, a Tshirt, etc lightened up the pack considerably (I´ll cover myself with my rain poncho when we sleep out- every gram counts). The weather is cooler today 24-25, just hope the rain holds off.

Ray Joe and Jason got to this albergue about 6pm. They spent the night in a pine forest with a little fire. Ray swears he heard a bear go through during the night - they are in good spirits. They didn´t get any of the messages I left along the way but did find Ben´s jumper that he´d tied to a tree for no good reason-they spent time trying to decode the message. We will give ourselves a rest day tomorrow, go and check out the Guggenheim and the town. We are all in pretty good shape physically but are tired and sore, a day of rest should fix that!