Maastricht to Santiago de Compostela
24-04 till 30-05-2008

The Plan

This is a rough map of the direction we will be taking. This plan follows the shortest route but also one that will take us through some places of interest.
First we'll be cycling along the river Maas (Meuse) through the Ardennes. This will be our second ride along this river, we enjoyed it the first time (on the way to Barcelona) so much we're looking forward to riding along this route again.
Second point is cycling along the river Loire where we'll take a day off and check out the castles around Blois and Tours.
Third is cycling along the Atlantic coast (never done before) from just south of Rochefort to Biarritz. Hopefully we'll have nice weather so we could check out the sunsets over the ocean.
And fourth is climbing into the Spanish hills to Pamplona and following the St.Jacobs route to Santiago de Compostela.
We will still continue to do research on this route but we're limited on the time we have, any detour will add more days that we really do not have.
Santiago de Compostela is #17, #18 is Finisterre "the edge of the world" which will be our ultimate goal.
On this tour we'll do the most km's  (+/-2400) and climb higher than we've done before (over 1500m) so we are really looking forward to this tour.
The blue line is our (non cycling) route to Porto for our flight back home.