A Visit From Home - Bilbao

Our first visitors have arrived, we met Christine and Sophie at Bilbao airport on Sunday. Bilbao is a huge industrial hub with factories, warehouses and huge smoking chimneys everywhere you look (although they are trying to change this and make it a more appealing destination) we struggled to find many campsites so chose to stay 15 miles away in a town called Gorliz. To get here we traveling up and down and around the mountains witnessing some beautiful views and some terrifying heights. Travelling around sharp bends in a heavy camper van with nothing between us and the edge was less than enjoyable, it's all part of the experience though.

We took Oscar to the airport with us, he was waiting patiently in the arrival lounge and was the first to spot Sophie. He was so excited to see her, his tail was wagging so fast and he was jumping all over her planting wet slobbery kisses all over her face. She was just as excited to see him. From that point until we dropped them back to the airport three days later they were inseparable. 

Sophie making loom band accessories for Oscar 

Sophie & Oscar enjoying hot chocolate and Yahtzee

We spent the majority of our time wandering around the shops in the town and playing on the beach where Sophie, Jac and Oscar went for a swim. Sophie found some Loom Bands in one of the shops and made everyone a bracelet, she also made Oscar a cute collar and insisted he wore a bracelet too, he wasn't overly impressed though she made sure he wore it the whole time. The time they spent with us flew by and by the time we'd caught up on all the goings on at home and we'd had our cupboards stocked (good old mum) they were on their way home again. 

Oscar didn't know what to do with himself after Sophie had gone and was sniffing after her with his nose stuck right out the window as we left the airport.