April 27 slideshow
April 26 C slideshow
April 26 B slideshow
April 26 A slideshow
April 25 B slideshow
Food from Back Home?
Post by Wynette: We are in the big city of Gijón (pronounced hee-HONE.) We are staying in an airbnb. Got here yesterday afternoon. Exploring our neighborhood this morning. A stone’s throw from our apartment, besides lots of bars and tapas places, we found Mexican food, Asian food, Greek food, Italian food, a British pub, and the above. We are ready for a change so might try some of these but probably not the American Indian pizza restaurant.
April 28 Slideshow
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Dfa8xzZ7czd8QN8m7
Post by Wynette: This was the slideshow Google generated for us today. We finished Stage 7, the last stage of the Ruta del Cantábrico, today. We are sad to say goodbye to it. We have decided to go back near where we began and spend some time in the city of Gijón. Long train ride tomorrow. More details to come.
Memorial
Post by Wynette: This literally took my breath away when we read it. A small simple plaque on the trail leading into Porto do Barqueiro. It says “To the men and women who died in this place defending liberty and democracy of the second republic. 1936 – 1939”. Of course, that was the Spanish Civil War that ended with Franco’s 35 year dictatorship. I suppose there are memorials like this all over Spain.
Day 23, April 27: Porto do Barqueiro to O Porto de Espasante
Post by Wynette: You may have noticed how often the place names here start with “O”. That means “the” in Galician.
We are nearing the end of the Ruta Cantábrica. People can walk this route either east to west or west to east. We are glad we went east to west because it has seemed the further west we go the more incredible this coast line is. If we’d started here, we might have been disappointed by places east in comparison. But as it has been, we’ve been blown away by nearly every day’s walk on the Ruta.
It’s impossible for me to put into words how stunning today’s hike was. I just wish everyone could experience it. It was a cloudy gray day. Light rain the first hour. We never got any sun on the walk. It would have been even more amazing in the sun with turquoise water but we still loved it.
(We walked about 9.5 miles. Quite a lot of up and down. My ankle and toe and knee did pretty well.)
