We had a great walk today, despite the guide book describing it as “one of the drearier legs of the Camino”. About an hour to walk out of Santander then through increasingly rural surroundings through Santa Cruz de Bezana then Boo de Piélagos, which we arrived at at around 12:30pm. We hadn’t spotted much open, being a Sunday, and we’re starting to wonder where we might find lunch.
At this point the Camino wanders for about 9kms to get about 1.7km as the crow flies. To take shorter route you have to follow a trail beside the railway line and then scamper across the railway bridge, hoping to avoid a train in doing so. As you can see from the photos we took the shorter route and were rewarded with a beautiful little restaurant – “el Estacion” – just after the Mogro train station!
After lunch we continued along the recommended shorter route for a further 6km, serendipitously coming across a sign to our hotel for the evening “Postada Lunada”. Our itinerary says its in Arce but it’s really in a little village a couple of km off the Camino called Pedroa. All in all a good days walk of 22kms for a total now of 291km!
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