Irun turned out to be wet and rainy. A trend that would continue all day. On the way to the trailhead we spotted a beaver pond and a huge beaver ad well as several marsh herons and a stork.
The trail turned out to be incredibly steep and led up to a church at the mid-way point. Pausing to catch our breath we took a bunch of pics of the Atlantic ocean to our right - the camino del norte essentially follows the spine of the mountains ( Pyrenees near irun and then the cantabrian mtns) along the coast for almost 300 km. Beautiful.
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Well, no albergue but you did get to see the beaver, heron and stork, yah! My favorite place in Spain was Potes, a small village in the countryside, a bus ride from the coast of San Sebastian, with limestone mountains, a stone bridge and the smell of sweet bread in the air. I hitch-hiked to Fuente De, took the cable car up to hike the Cantabrian mtns then hitched a ride back to town since I missed the last bus. I was able to convince the cook at my hostel to prepare juevos for breakfast...got sooooo tired of jamon y queso cada dia.
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing back such wonderful memories and looking forward to more of yours.
Have a churro for me!
Tenga un buen fin de semana. Ciao, Theresa