Different waymark in Asturias |
Another rainy day |
Man fishing way down in the river |
Path over river |
Llanes from a distance; it seemed to take forever to get there |
Village outside Llanes |
Finally we approach Llanes |
Low tide |
Dancers at a wedding |
La Torre del Castillo in Llanes |
Details of windows in Llanes |
Following the coast |
Pam and the Nuestra Senora de las Dolores in Barro |
Abandoned monastery |
Rocky coastline |
Surf's up |
Arranged with fresh flower petals for a first communion |
Had to rest and lunch at the top of this hill |
Typical Asturian horreo (old granary) |
Ribadesella |
Another horreo |
And another |
Albergue of San Esteban de Leces |
We had the 24 place albergue to ourselves |
Camino go right, albergue go left |
Horreo |
Most houses have one |
Here one must decide: Continue along the coast or take the Camino Primitivo inland and through the mountains |
Good resting spot |
Monastery San Salvador in Valdedios |
Church in Monastery, consecrated in 893 |
Pola de Siero |
El toro (actually an ad for Sherry) |
Puente medieval in Colloto |
Oviedo - raining again |
Famous Fabada Asturiana (beans, chorizo, blood sausage) |
Oviedo - storm coming |
Ovideo |
Waymarks in Oviedo |
Pouring sidra the traditional way |
Beer ad along the Camino |
Pilgrims - this way |
Narrow gorge, medieval bridge at Pena Flor |
Big horreo |
Grado |
Grado plaza |
Cava break - Salud! |
On the way to Salas |
Walking in cloud - again |
And there was mud - again |
Monastereo del Salvador in Cornellana, looked abandoned |
Back of the same monastery |
Typical wooden outdoor shoes, worn over the inside slippers |
Path - follow the arrows |
Pilgrim and dote cote |
Salas |
Salas |
Wayside shrine |
Old water mill, swallowed up by the jungle |
Road leading into Tineo |
In Tineo |
Tineo - built on a steep hill, the old part at the top |
Beautiful forest |
We made a small diversion to visit the old Monestero de Obona, dating from 780; it was a pilgrim's hospital |
Bit wonky, but still standing |
Pola de Allende, had a great lunch here at Hotel Nueva Allendesa |
Path goes through a house |
Long hike uphill beside a pretty stream |
First horreo with a slate roof |
View from the top, the highest point on Camino Primitivo at 1300 meters |
Barren, but pretty flowers in bloom |
Montefurado, we followed the ridge before descending |
Iglesia Lago |
Running of the cows! |
Stone fences |
Lunch inside the Albergue La Mesa - cold and wet outside but we continued on |
Tiny chapel, local materials |
Descending to the Embalse de Salime, all the way down, then back up again |
Embalse de Salime |
These stone walls are to keep the osos (bears) out of the honey |
Bee hives inside the stone walls, only at Grandes de Salime |
Grandes de Salime, after a 40 km+ walk today |
Man watering his donkey |
Takes a few centuries to get the mossy roof look |
Jeff resting at the top of the hill before we cross into Galicia |