Goodbye Basque Country, Hello Cantabria

Pobeña was the last town we stayed in in Pais Vasco, also known as Vizcaya (Basque Country). We started seeing more Spanish names before that but after Pobeña it was all Spanish. No more x’s and k’s. Castro Urdiales was our first stay in Cantabria. The pintxos petered out a bit and now, after a few days, they are not nearly as good. We didn’t have much of a sense of Cantabria and what it would be like. We will enter Asturias in about 9 days. (For more about the regions of Spain see this. We started in 4, now we are in 3, next is 2. Santiago is in 1.)