Misty Day

We were walking through fog all day yesterday. The Camino went right through the cow pasture, including bulls, who ignored us.

Playa de Gulpiyuri

The surf you see here is going through a natural tunnel in the cliff that runs about 100 feet. Kind of amazing. I climbed up the cliff behind it and got this photo of the entrance from the top of the cliff.

Naves to Ribadesella, Tuesday, May 8

Post by Wynette: We walked 11.5 miles today. It was easy because there was not too much intense up and down. We started out walking in light fog. It was misting more than raining but we finally stopped under cover of above church to get out our rain coats and pack covers (photo below).

The Camino here took us in the middle of a herd of about 20 cattle with no fence between us and them. The herd included a large bull. I’m glad he was further down the hill and ignoring us and that I hadn’t yet put on my bright red raincoat. I’m guessing the red thing with bulls is a myth but it would have made me very nervous.

We are now cozy in a hotel in pretty little town of Ribadesella. We splurged 10 extra euros to get an ocean view. Beach is just behind our hotel. We plan to stay two days here. Looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow and having the hotel breakfast. Lots of gray rainy days coming up in the weather forecast. I miss the sun but think we have been lucky to have had as many beautiful sunny days as we’ve had up to now.

David from Florida

Post by Wynette: Today we met our first pilgrim from the US. We met David walking out of Llanes and then off and on after that. He would get ahead of us and then go a little out of his way to visit a beach and then we’d get ahead of him. (Not that we haven’t gone out of our way at times but today we didn’t do much of that.) We ended up, all three of us, going a little out of our way to a bar for coffee. David is walking the Camino with someone 20 years younger. He said the younger one goes on ahead and they meet up later. He says that works out well. I joked that he should try what Charlie and I do: have the faster walker carry more than 2/3 our total weight. That keeps us at a more compatible pace. David has been walking 15 to 18 mile days. He started in Santander 5 days ago. Nine days of walking for us.

David did the Camino Portugués two years ago. Same time we did!