Monday 8 October 2012

Cadavedo to Navia about 32km and 9hrs again

Cadavedo to Navia about 32km
Great meal again last night in a local bar full of people watching what was clearly an important Spanish football match with supporters from both sides in the bar. Had another 'menu of the day' at 12€ inc sweet and wine. We had the local version of beans and sausage to start with and it came in a huge dish with about as much as we could eat in it. The main course was lamb and chips. Wonderful tasty meat  but there was so much we could not eat it all. Got off to a good start today with pleasant tracks again. Had a bit of rain on and off for a couple of hours but nothing too heavy. However, we passed Luarca the motorway works again proved to be problematic as the Camino had been re-signed to a temporary route. It was well marked originally and we were following a good track, but it soon terminated at the major road works which included demolitions! Reversed our track for about 50m and tried that but after about 15mins this looked to be drifting off in the wrong direction so mike suggested we reversed track again. After some discussion we chose to scramble down the sides of the workings to where we could see another track that looked ok. After about 50m of downwards clamber we got to the track and hidden around  the corner was a Camino sign!  Carried on towards our planed destination of an AdP in Pinera. Got to the village and found the house to register and pay our 5€ only to be told that the AdP itself was a further kilometre on! Went on and found the place ok with a little help from a German Pelegreno. However, it was right on a very busy highway with about 25 beds with plenty of people already there, and to cap it all there was nowhere close by to buy food or eat. We decided to donate our fee and hike on towards Navia which was about another 5.6km away. When we got to the outskirts we saw a small two star pension and stopped. Another 9hr day on the trail, but at least it was mostly flat!



3 comments:

  1. You appear to be walking further each day. It all sounds great. Love the pictures you sent yesterday. Have you got another jacket? If not do hope the rain stays here and not in spain! Christa

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  2. Have just worked out how to follow blog & hope tis allowed to comment. Yr 'important football match' was Barcelona v Real Madrid - THE big one - in Spanish Football! Yr diary & snaps are great.

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  3. Hi rod glad to see you could comment. I did know who it was playing really but just like to take the mik out of my soccer fanatic friends.

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