Apartamentos Rurales Casa El Caminero Luarca

Empezamos el Camino de Santiago en el Hotel Mar de Plata de Sarria (Hotel Sarria)
Nuestra aventura comenzó el día 11 de Agosto de 2009 en la localidad de
Sarria, el pueblo más grande del camino de santiago en galicia.

... An opportunity to shower and camp on a clifftop campsite; the rain continued... We had a trip into the local town of St Vincent de la Barquera, where we bought fresh fish, having asked 5 people (Annabelle's Spanish delivery of asking for a fish shop took us to a fishing tackle shop...)

... in the hotel room reading while I went to Mass…..or so I thought. With so many churches you’d think one would have Mass at 10am. It was not to be. I spent some time in the basilica (photo attached). I really like it. It’s pretty bare inside and looks very medieval. The lingering odor of incense and the choir practicing in some hidden room made for a very meditative time.

We left the hotel by 11 and ...

... grotto. Nothing like a statute of the BVM with water coming out of the mountain to draw us Catholics out from every nook and cranny. The herd of goats that usually blocks Paul's entry into churches was nowhere to be found here.....so maybe it's a good sign. Don't send a Catholic jihad after me, now, just making light of a fun time!

About "the Christians getting nasty" part. This is apparently ...

... to deliver Conrad's special delivery of two packages of Datil Daddy's beef jerky from home. Through perseverence with the security guard who didn't speak any English, Conrad understood that the mayor was out meeting a trade deligation from Angola but that her secretary would be there shortly.

We ate lunch on a bench outside while waiting. And then, an angel appeared, or more precisely ...

In the afternoon we went up to the mountains of Asturias, just south of Luarca we found a tiny road leading up. Wonderful scenery and scary roads lead us finally to the tiny town of San Pedro de Paredes where we had a meal consisting of jamon and bacon.

... Carbonara Andy Photo's whilst Helen Slept 1st May2007 Luarca - Santiago de Compostela Wet Wet Wet, Rain Rain Rain Very Medieval, Tapas eating out. Missed Bus due to Andy's Faffing. Walked in and out of town. Helen definitely not well. Slept poorly, loud rain!

hello there! We stopped of in Santander for 10 days to catch up with some friends and had a great time. We met up with Elissa, Carlas Spanish friend and got drunk with all her buddies. They cooked for us alot and showed us around the city. Santander is a uni town so Aussies are plentiful. We caught up with Doogle and Candy who we met in Prague and Jimmy from Warnambool.

Po lekkim (hmmm, moze nie tak malym) kacu niedzielnym, dotarlysmy do Luarki gdzie napotkalysmy naszych sasiadow zza poludniowej granicy - Czechow. :) Poszlismy na winko de la casa i prawie nas musieli z tej knajpy wyrzucac, bo bylismy ostatnimi tam klientami, a nazajutrz (czyli dzis) w Szpanielsku obchodzi sie swieto Santiago. Przenocowalismy nielegalnie w naszym pokoju dwojke znajomych naszych Czechow i wczesnym rankiem ruszylysmy w ...

Bilbao, Spain Hola! Como estas? Spain...well, we only had a day in Spain also, so we made use of it as best as possible. I'm not sure if you have heard of the Guggenheim Museum which is quite famous (I hadn't!), but anyway it was gorgeous, and spent a very large chunk of my day there. It was architecturally amazing, and the displays were really interesting also. There was a special Russian ...