Ribadesella to Colunga

Sunday 16th april Notes Day 8

When up at 06.00 by a group of loud spanish men, so we had an early breakfast - the hostel had left out a roll, tiny cake and lollipop each for us! The men hadn't done their washing up, so they clearly didn't understand hostel etiquette!

We went cross country to Vega beach, where we spent some time looking for dinosaur footprints and trying to smash rocks together for Crystal's or fossils.

From there, there was a river blocking the way along the beach, so we followed the camino up a medieval road to the clifftops.the path wound around the cliffs an then down to La Espasa, where we had a snack at some windswept picnic tables, and then walked along the esplanade looking at the tourists having drinks behind glass screens. We continued along a Roman road, with an interesting set of narrow, parallel walkways over a stream. Arriving in Colunga, we found the hotel we were looking for, which was not ideal, not having breakfast or clothes-washing  facilities, but we decided to stop anyway, and Sue managed to wash some clothes in the hand basin. We then had a decious and filling meal in the hotel bar, a local delicacy consisting of broad bean stew with sausage meat and bacon, accompanied by a tuna, lluve and tomato salad and a bottle of the lical cider.

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