THIS week sees a group of keen cyclists from Crickhowell setting off on their marathon journey from Santander in northern Spain to start their road trip back to Scaer, and on to the ferryport at Roscoff - a trip of around 800 miles of, including a bit of the Pyrenees, in 12 days.As promised the group will be updating their progress every day via our website:

Sorry we couldn’t send a report yesterday as there wasn’t any wifi at the B&B.

The ferry was a bit late arriving so it was wet and getting dark as we dashed 20 odd miles to Cicero and a lovely posada.

After an excellent breakfast today we gingerly got ourselves together for a fairly epic day in the saddle at 80 miles (over 7000 of climb over three hills each akin to the Tumble).

We headed off to Bilbao and crossed the transporter bridge (shades of Newport ) and then climbed into the Urdbaiba Natural Park towards are home for the night at the seaside village of Lekeitio. Home for the night is in the Aterpetxa hostel, basic but clean. A beer or two is now calling.