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Great.an amiable slightly sozzled man in the bar told me to knock at the door of the big house next door, where the nice owner is putting me up for the night for €12 in a very comfortable stone-lined room full of heavy antique oak furniture.
The albergue in Comillas being closed, I chose the worst pensión in town to stay in, €30 for a room my wife would find unacceptable for our dog (he is quite a fussy dog). The advantage of staying in a dump is that there is no incentive to linger in the morning, so I was out by 7.15, with the dying moon making three in a bed with the separating Venus and Jupiter, and Gaudí's Capriccio still floodlit.
Soon after San Vicente, and the first coffee of the day, I caught up with a German peregrina, the first person I've walked with this year. Sadly she was heading off on the Liébana, so after a couple of pleasant hours, with fabulous views of the Picos she was heading into, we parted, after she confirmed from her guidebook that the albergue in Pendueles was open in November. It isn't, but an amiable slightly sozzled man in the bar told me to knock at the door of the big house next door, where the nice owner is putting me up for the night for €12 in a very comfortable stone-lined room full of heavy antique oak furniture. It's a bit nerve-wracking when that happens, but miraculously I've yet to spend a night in the church porch.
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And we are looking forward to your postsI am really looking forward to your posts. I am planning El Norte for 2016.
Bon camino!
Magwood, when are you walking the Camino, it would be great meeting you, I learned so much from you PC blog.I am planning El Norte for 2016.
I think there would have been some spectacular views of the coast today, but we are shrouded in warm mis all day. Villaviciosa seemed a pleasant town, 5 hours or so from La Isla. On the outskirts was La Gaitero, the local hórreos are square but clearly similar to the rectangular ones further west, and the second bar in town was a pulpería, so all in all I must be close to Galicia. Not being able to resist pulpo, I stopped and had some with the high poured sidra. Very pleasant, but there was some debate about whether the albergue in Valdediós was open, and with the sidra dragging my feet, I decided not to risk another 7km to a damp, empty and possibly closed monastery, but stop in the new donativo albergue of Amandi, where they have a fabulous semi-circular portada on their 13th century church of San Juan. The 9th century prerrománica delights of San Salvador de Valdediós will have to wait to the morning, when it's forecast to be sunny again, so I should be able to enjoy it more.
Magwood, when are you walking the Camino, it would be great meeting you, I learned so much from you PC blog......
Yup that's the plan. My tablet having just died means I now had no access to my offline maps from wikiloc, but having been busking it mostly for 1000km, the last few days shouldn't be too much of a problem, he says hubristicly. So I will probably get lost, and everybody gets wet in Galicia, even in this astonishing autumn.Watching with interest. Are you aiming to follow the Ruta do Mar to San Andrés de Teixido and then down to Ferrol and the Inglés?
Buen Camino
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