US to Pamplona, Spain

[gradyho]

Advice needed......I would like to be in Pamplona Spain next July for the Fiesta de San Fermín Festival. I have commitments here stateside in February and March of 2017. I would like to leave from Georgetown Harbor, South Carolina, USA on April 1st 2017. I'm looking at roughly 3,000 miles to the Azores where I'd like to rest for a few days and restock the stores. Any advice on this leg and time frame will be most appreciated.
From there I'm looking at heading to either Bilbao or San Sebastian Spain for dockage, then land travel to Pamplona for the festival. I'm not above docking in Portugal and air hopping over to Pamplona, again, advice needed to what's safest, most fun, easiest and cheapest (I know they can't be all rolled into one ball of wax, can they?).
Any help, advice or ridicule will be most appreciated.


Grady Lee Honeycutt
S/V Anejo