Author: Charles Crowley

Another pilgrimage

We started seeing signs like this:

The yellow arrow indicates the Camino de Santiago but we hadn’t seen the red arrow before. Then we saw this pair of signs:

We had intersected the Camino de Lebaniego which goes to Santo Toribio de Liebana. It has its own posts:

When we got into Unquera we found out it is having a jubilee year:

4/28 WynChar Diary

Miles walked: 9.77, -32 to 396 feet, up 791 feet, down 743 feet, 5.5 hours on the trail, including stops for coffee and breakfast
Miles Charlie said it would be before we left: 6.5
Major European mountain ranges spotted: 1
Other pilgrimages intersected with: 1

It would have been a short walking day except for a data entry error in the travel app I put together before we left. Instead it was a longer than usual day, but it wasn’t that hard. Wynette’s knee did not bother her while we were walking. Still hard for her to get up and down out of a chair.

Another beautiful walk in “nature” (this is, farms). Different from yesterday since this was all inland, but just as impressive. In the distance, we saw the Picos de Europa in their full glory, one impressive mountain range!

The hay bale plot

I wrote before about the tires on top of the plastic covered hay bales, apparently to “weigh them down”. This turns out to be a clever deception on their part, it does nothing of the sort.

Here they are, just past Comillas, ready to make their move.
More of them, before San Vicente, ready to take over the road.
An advance group to capture the beach.

4/27 WynChar Diary

Miles: 7.7 miles from 0 to 299 feet, up 381, down 469
Miles walking on a long beach: 2
Peruvian restaurants visited: 1
Hay bale plots uncovered: 1

Today was a beautiful walk, one of the best of the trip. We (and by “we” I mean Wynette, my memories are scenes with no attached locations) remembered it from 2018. We stopped at a seaside bar that we stopped at in 2018.

Luckily the patio was out of the wind so a most pleasant stop.

It was windy the whole way but coming into San Vicente it was almost blow-you-over windy, and cold.

My hat puffs up with air when it is windy.

We ate at Bar Colón. It was listed as a Peruvian restaurant but it only had four Peruvian dishes. We had rice with mariscos (seafood). They didn’t call it “paella” but it was paella-like and quite good.