 From Urrugne it was a one to three night hike of about with a Basque guide, usually one who had been a smuggler and knew the mountains intimately, across the Franco-Spanish border to Oiartzun, near San Sebastian.There, the evacuees were met by a driver and automobile belonging to British diplomats which took them to Madrid.From Madrid, the evacuees were escorted by British diplomats to Gibraltar from where they would be flown to the United Kingdom.