May 2nd 2016 – Bank Holiday Monday and the birthday of Charles, who started Echo with Estrid in 1988:

A forty-minute ride on my mountain bike, past cows and ponies and sheep, takes me from my house in Spain to the top of a hill, just above the village of Següenco.

To the South, the melting snows on the Picos de Europa under a high sun – spring is well underway and in a liitle over a month we’ll be saying goodbye to this ‚paraíso natural’…

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…and to the North, the Sierra del Sueve, beyond which lies the Cantabrian Coast, the Atlantic Ocean and further still the South of England, where an exciting new season at ECHO awaits us!

 

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