We awoke under a heavy marine layer and watched a very cute tufted-eared Red Squirrel climb over our lounge chairs! After the usual good breakfast, we drove to the coast to find a trail recommended by our hotel owner.
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| Red Squirrel |
As we drove down the highway we, unexpectedly, saw more pilgrims trudging along a trail; it turns out that we are now near an alternate route to Santiago.
We parked by a little restaurant, walked down a lane and found the dirt road that runs along the coast for quite a ways. We started seeing amazing views of sea-carved limestone headlands and islands.
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| Wild Foxgloves |
The trail was full of families out for Sunday walks and we passed happy flocks of hens and roosters, and cows, calves and a large, but placid, bull.
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| Sleeping Calf |
The Romanesque church in the distance rang its bells for half an hour while exploding rockets were sent up into the air! The wildflowers were terrific. We turned back after about 1 1/2 miles and reached our car just as the light drizzle began to intensify into light rain.
Bob thought we should try to drive up into the mountains to see if we could get above the low clouds, so we set off on small back roads. He drove up a really narrow, twisting road in the rain - pretty scary as oncoming cars didn't tend to slow down very much at all. We got up to 1500' and then the road started to descend, defeating our purpose. We stopped at a gas station and I bought us imitation Magnum Bars (actually Nestle) to hold us until dinner.
We returned to La Posada and emptied the car since we have to pack everything up tonight as we are going to drop off our wonderful Audi at the Bilbao Airport tomorrow and take a taxi into town for our city day, before flying home on Wednesday.
At 8 (or 6 by my watch!) we walked over to the main house for, yet another delicious dinner of puréed vegetable soup, followed by a tough, but flavorful, steak with mushrooms and two fruit chutneys. We split a very intense local raspberry ice cream for dessert.
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| Library at Our Hotel |
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