shefollowsshells
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Several alone and with children
So this town has always charmed me via pictures and is not disappointing!
I left a friend in El Pito not certain I should persuade anyone to come here not knowing what to expect...now wish I brought company. very social energy here, stunningly beautiful, filled with umbrella cafes.
Honestly have no idea where my head will rest....it is 1900, vino in hand and I feel I have an hour to decide. One and a half kilometers separates me from an " auberge" sign in. El Pito ( the building before the church).
All the hotels offered dinner and I ate the largest lunch today.
Walked with a French gentleman who knows the Camino wells, we share the common interest of willing to walk and pay for good food. We arrived in Soto del Barco and he asked for " good food"... We were lead thru the town up the road past the train station. IF you come from Aviles this is about 6 hours, and if you like your larger meal at this time ( I usually do not) and you love good food and staff that will hug you on your way out even though every seat is taken you might want to take the extra few steps to get here.
SO make note....pass the train station, the left AFTER the train station walk up you will think you are in a neighborhood, that I am fibbing and that this place does not exist....pass about two homes, the road curves and you will fine this restaurant.
EL MESONIN DE TERE
La carrilona 15
We did the menu...
HUGE bowl of soup put before us of the traditional soup of the area, enough to feed three people, chicken, small salad, a chocalte tarte made there ( a man grills the food infront of you)....vino, aqua....for 14 euros. I think she said it is 8 during the week, but don't quote me.
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After leaving Soto del Barco, David mentions in his book, " fork left up a steep dirt road". This is after crossing the river.
Here an elderly gentleman of 76 offered us free cokes. His casa is a simple white home right before you head up this dirt road. We declined the cokes thinking we were doing the right thing and instantly realized it was important to him for us to accept them. He talked our ear off, I could understand little BUT he just might be an angel on the Camino. I understood him say he was lonely....it took my French friend to tell me how lonely.
this man lost hismwife to a tragic accident....this is Good Friday and he said he is lonely and needs to speak to someone....pilgrims are his communication source.
He chose to walk with us up this steep hill vs not to talk to us.
His nake is. Franciso ( like San Fransico) and I would love for him to be treated by pilgrims as if an expected friend to expect on the. Camino....
Please be on the look out for him
.... Show him some needed love if you see him and know he has shown us love....
white humble home, high end small car dark color out front....he honestly is the last house on the left before you head up!!!!!!
I left a friend in El Pito not certain I should persuade anyone to come here not knowing what to expect...now wish I brought company. very social energy here, stunningly beautiful, filled with umbrella cafes.
Honestly have no idea where my head will rest....it is 1900, vino in hand and I feel I have an hour to decide. One and a half kilometers separates me from an " auberge" sign in. El Pito ( the building before the church).
All the hotels offered dinner and I ate the largest lunch today.
Walked with a French gentleman who knows the Camino wells, we share the common interest of willing to walk and pay for good food. We arrived in Soto del Barco and he asked for " good food"... We were lead thru the town up the road past the train station. IF you come from Aviles this is about 6 hours, and if you like your larger meal at this time ( I usually do not) and you love good food and staff that will hug you on your way out even though every seat is taken you might want to take the extra few steps to get here.
SO make note....pass the train station, the left AFTER the train station walk up you will think you are in a neighborhood, that I am fibbing and that this place does not exist....pass about two homes, the road curves and you will fine this restaurant.
EL MESONIN DE TERE
La carrilona 15
We did the menu...
HUGE bowl of soup put before us of the traditional soup of the area, enough to feed three people, chicken, small salad, a chocalte tarte made there ( a man grills the food infront of you)....vino, aqua....for 14 euros. I think she said it is 8 during the week, but don't quote me.
***********
After leaving Soto del Barco, David mentions in his book, " fork left up a steep dirt road". This is after crossing the river.
Here an elderly gentleman of 76 offered us free cokes. His casa is a simple white home right before you head up this dirt road. We declined the cokes thinking we were doing the right thing and instantly realized it was important to him for us to accept them. He talked our ear off, I could understand little BUT he just might be an angel on the Camino. I understood him say he was lonely....it took my French friend to tell me how lonely.
this man lost hismwife to a tragic accident....this is Good Friday and he said he is lonely and needs to speak to someone....pilgrims are his communication source.
He chose to walk with us up this steep hill vs not to talk to us.
His nake is. Franciso ( like San Fransico) and I would love for him to be treated by pilgrims as if an expected friend to expect on the. Camino....
Please be on the look out for him
.... Show him some needed love if you see him and know he has shown us love....white humble home, high end small car dark color out front....he honestly is the last house on the left before you head up!!!!!!
