What are you favourite places in Northern Spain, specifically between Santander and Bilbao, and inland from there?
We're looking at a trip there in July (with two pre-teens), flying to either of the above two cities and then probably spending some time in the city and some in the countryside/mountains. We love galleries, museums, ambling about and eating good food. We like walking/light hiking but certainly aren't hardcore mountaineers. Basically we'll take trainers rather than boots 😁. We also like swimming so would like a beach day or two, ideally, or maybe river/lake swimming inland.
We'll probably each take cabin baggage (aiming to travel fairly light...) and plan to hire a car once heading away from the city.
We're on a vague budget of about £160 p/n for accom (for self-catering, although open to other suggestions albeit unlikely on this budget!).
Does anyone have any specific recs, please? Or even just vague areas you've liked!