Hotel Rural Yeguada Albeitar Villayon

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.

Time to put a few miles behind us, hence we travelled onwards to Luarca. This took us on a route that skirts the Picos de Europa mountain range; endless viaducts and driving up and down hills for a number of hours, arriving at our destination; Luarca, still on the - very wet - Spanish north ...

... up the mountain about 12 kilometers…..and I mean REALLY up! Not sure of the altitude, but it was up there. There are two lakes up there that are phenomenal. I’m attaching photos of that. It was so beautiful up there that words just can’t explain. Some of the photos do capture it pretty closely—just not sure how well they’ll upload to the website, but I’ll give it a good try. By noon ...

... place that commemorates the taking back of Spain from the Moors by the Christians in the late 700s. Apparently, this Pelayo dude (very scary smelly mountain man-looking from the paintings around) decided enough was enough. [Guess the Moors were permitting too much education, freedom, civilization, art, science and the like.) So here we stand in the heart of all that made the way for throwing out of ...

We arrived to find the site deserted. Parked the caravan and went for a walk by the sea. Very smelly coast and a lot of washed-up rubbish. Returned to be greeted by a group of the local peasantry who unlocked one of the elecricity boxes for us to plug in. Decided against it on the grounds of ...

A slow morning saw us arrive in A caruna around 2:30p for a quick tour. A beautiful city where we had an excellent lunch (more kids running through the streets while we devoured raciones and wine. Yum!!) A 6ish departure for our long drive to Llanes in Astoria. We finally ...

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.

Santiago De Compostello is an important religious town on the northern coast of Spain. It is the point of completion of the Camino De Santiago, a pilgramidge that thousands of people complete every day. A gorgeous town, with spectacular architecture once again, and some beautiful museums. Next town along is Bilbao, with one main attraction of the ...