We departed Laredo about 9:15 this morning for a fairly short walk along the coast to Barrio de Castillo. Actually that’s not quite correct – we left our hotel at 9:15 and left Laredo at about 10:30, that town has one of the longest beaches I’d ever seen! Short ferry ride across the estuary to Santona – breakfast there (2nd breakfast, actually), then on to Playa de Berria. This beach was also amazing – not much swell but breaks everywhere as well as tons of surf camps – might have to come back with my longboard!
We couldn’t have a day without at least one climb up and down – so up and over the hill on a track that would have looked the part on the Cape to Cape and onto the Playa de Noja (which immediately pushed the Playa de Laredo into second place for the longest beach I’ve ever seen!).
We pushed on a short distance to Barrio de Castillo.
Our accommodation is 4km back along an inland variant of the trail (I have no idea why anyone would take the inland alternative over the beaches we got to walk along), so I managed to order a cab (in Spanish!) to get us to our “Posada” in a nice little village called Escalante.
17kms today/239 in total. Last leg of our second section tomorrow – rest day the day after!
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Hi Dave & Al. Keep the updates going. But we do expect photos to be the right way up! Are you grouping up with any other walkers? In a few of your photos it seems there are others on the same trek.
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Sorry Rod! Must have had the phone upside down!
We meet people most days and often cross paths again later in the section but we lose them when we have a break between sections. Almost all young Europeans so far …
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