Left home 1pm, filled with gas at Tiddington, 24lt then fuel at Asda.
Arrived Portsmouth no hold ups, waited 20 mins in queue then onto Ferry, Spanish workmen parked up their instructions are very brusque not entirely clear. Given card for cabin at check-in, so headed for that, inside 2 berth, compact but ok. Had a wander. Sat and watched whilst we left the harbour, then sort out something to eat, had a crap entrecote, not recommended. Sat in cabin reading there appeared to something rolling around in the wall behind the upper bunk, Jacqui decided she could not bear it. So we went to service desk and she complained, the 2 girls on the desk looked at each and apologised saying they had maintenance checking for it all the time but could not find it, so would move us no problems with an upgrade to a 4 berth.
Very calm crossing although beds not great, Wednesday had coffee and croissant for breakfast, more reading and lunch, more reading, all very calm.
Arrived 1800 Spanish time, van as inside was fine, so we waited our turn and headed off .
Planned to head for the Aire at the Uni Parkland, the route which we should of checked took us through the centre of Santander, narrow one way steep roads.