Fairly arduous walk today – a lot of up and down on a mixture of paved rural roads and paved and medieval footpaths before a steepish descent into the town of Zumaia. We only passed through but it looked more like a working town complete with a shipyard rather than a holiday town. A very steep rise out of town and then what seemed like a very steady uphill through farmlands into Elorriaga at about 230 m of elevation. We stopped for a beer and txakolina, the sun came out and we pressed on for Itziar where we also stopped for the second round. In between was a real mix of pathways again but continual up and down. Pretty gentle downhill into the beautiful beach town of Deba where we are staying tonight until the last few hundred meters which felt almost vertical. The last 50 were vertical as we caught the elevator someone had kindly put there down into the town. The swim was superb after a hot days hiking!
18kms today and 69.4kms in total – starting to add up!
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