26th May

26th May
Llanes to Ribadesella 30k

What a day!  A bit of everything today.  We were flanked by the mountains for most of our walk today.  The temperature was just right once again.  The terrain was up and down but not too bad.  Bitumen and dirt, country lane and road.  And then.....WOW!  We arrived in Ribadesella.  We had decided to treat ourselves and had booked a room for tonight.  We were not disappointed.  The lovely guy on reception liked us and gave us a sea view room.  It's so lovely we have decided to have another night here and this can be the night off we were going to have for my birthday back in Santander but decided we didn't feel like being in a city.  We don't plan rest days as I think the day you need to rest will present itself.  Well I got that right today.  We were starting to feel tired from the accumulated days of walking and so Ribadesella is the right place to rest.  We should hopefully be rejuvenated after tomorrow.

Fuzz was admiring the view from our window when he saw Chiara sitting on the beach with Lucas who we lost a few days back.  We hurried down to the beach to see them and it turns out that the albergue in the town is closed.  This is a calamity for a lot of pilgrims after a very long stage today as the next town is 5k away.  We asked at our hotel what had happened and they tell us that the Albergue is run by the government and every 4 years they have to find new people to run it.  They've just had elections here so lets hope that fixes the problem soon.  It kept Fuzz and I occupied for a while wondering how we would run an Albergue.  Especially one on the seafront.