In Villaviciosa after a fairly easy (but with some slippery patches of mud as a reminder) walk, first in a light rain, then in warm sun, from La Isla. Highlight: getting into a church built in 921 CE that still has some original coloring on ceilings and walls, along with an original stone baptismal font. […]
Posting on 4/19 because no wi-fi in La Isla last night. Walked with Nichole again on Monday. Met several peregrinos who had come up here from the frances because it was too cold. In Colunga now, 4 km into a short 20 km day.
Nichole and I walked out into a gentle, persistent rain this morning in Llanes. Got off the marked track a couple of times, once having to walk on a railroad track which dumped us out right where the Way took us through a tunnel onto the road we needed. Good eats and drinks, including sidre […]
In Llanes sitting across the table from Nichole in an unplanned but happy meeting in the local albergue. Beautiful walk above the beaches in an on and off cool rain, finishing off with a 6 km walk very high on a steep hillside (but below a fancy golf course) past an old hermitage and a […]
Cool and rainy at the beginning and end. Pavement pounding all day with a long uphill on the N-634 highway inyo Colombres. Talked with Karen in San Vicente in the middle of the day.
Lots of inland roads and trails to get to another beach town. In Comillas after my first 30+ km day.
Left the wonderful all-volunteer albergue in Guemes after breakfast. Walked cliff tops and beaches to finally catch the ferry to Santander. Left Liza there for her return, via Barcelona, to her daughter, an artist in residence in Paris. From Santander to Requejada and a great little municipal albegue, keys from the bar across the street, […]
Andando en las playas. Dos! About 10 km of beach walking in the rising and warming sun. Interrupted only by a climb up and over and down a rocky point with very steep sides more suitable for goats than old men in packs. Ask to see the pix. Then through small towns and fields to […]
Left the beach town of Islares with the sun still behind the rocky hills across the street. Down to the beach, then turning away from the water, under the large highway, and down the N-634 for a ways. Finally spotted the beach/surf town of Laredo. Beautiful. But once we wound our way through the little […]
The changes in Spain! Good weather blew in overnight. Liza did not want to spend a day walking through the industrial environs of Bilbao (and I agreed), so via metro and bus we skipped a stage of walking in about 1/2 hour. We started walking in Pobeña this morning. A simply gorgeous day walking on […]