Post by Wynette: Today (April 16) we started along the Camino del Mar which mostly follows the Ruta Cantábrica, a system of trails that follow the Atlantic coast in northern Galicia. We walked about 7.5 miles.
The Camino here is poorly marked. We see a yellow camino arrow here and there, but the Ruta has excellent signage so we are following that, and, of course, our GPS tracks. The trail is usually right along the ocean. Today (April 16) much of it went through what we called mini-moors on headlands. We saw heather (I think) and gorse and many other wild flowers. Lots of sun so water was blue. Quite a pretty hike. Most of it was country far from any houses. We did see a number of people out walking and others gathering something from the tide pools (mussels?).
We are staying in the tiny village of Rinlo. We didn’t have a lot of choice for accommodation. Our room is clean and quiet but beds aren’t great and we never did get any hot water for showers. Maybe almost sorta lukewarm. We were feeling a little down about that but it finally dawned on us that this was a clearly a first-world problem.
The hotel does have an excellent restaurant. We had some delicious scallops and then a large steaming hot pot of rice, lobster, prawn, crab, and clams, a dish that is a specialty of the town. We had to wait 30 minutes for them to prepare the dish but it was worth it. The restaurant was large and full and nearly everyone was having the rice dish.
Beautiful!!