Day 11, April 15: Ribadeo and Playa de las Catedrales

At the beach in the rain

Post by Wynette: We are staying in Ribadeo two nights. One reason is that we wanted to visit the famous Beach of the Cathedrals which is about 10 miles from Ribadeo. We will be walking right by it on Wednesday but you can only walk on the beach itself at low tide and timing was good to go today. So that it doesn’t get too crowded, reservations are required to go on the beach during the summer and during Holy Week. We made reservations before we left. Today was the day. Low tide a little before 8 am. Got up, ate hotel breakfast at 7:30. Taxi picked us up at 8:00. Got to beach around 8:15. Pouring rain. The most rain we’ve had all trip. We were prepared with our trusty rain gear, but, I think the taxi driver felt sorry for us because he asked us if we wanted his umbrella. He said we could leave it at the hotel and he’d pick it up later. We gladly accepted his offer. Another Camino angel. The beach really was beautiful. We walked around a bit and then got a coffee at the beach bar and then caught a bus back to town. (We had to take taxi to the beach because earliest bus was after 9, too late for the low tide.) There are more photos of the beach in slideshow Charlie just published.

The sun did come out after a while