Today was a “nero” day. As in nearly zero miles.
It was raining, windy, and cold in the morning. If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m a fair weather hiker!
I basically walked out of Somo to a ferry stop, took the ferry across the bay to Santander and walked a ways through the city.
The temperature today was in the mid-50’s. My planning for this trek did not factor these type of temps in.
As I was killing time I decided to check out the latitude here and discovered it is basically the same as Toronto, Canada. Add in the fact that we’re next to a cold ocean and it starts to make sense. Probably should have looked into that a month ago. I would have brought a pair of long pants along!
Santander is a fairly big city with some interesting architecture. This is the Banco de Santander building. I found that interesting because, at one point, I owned some stock in that. Can’t remember how that worked out so that means probably not very good.
The Camino goes right down “Main Street”.
By late afternoon, the wind was still blowing but sky was clearing up. Today was first time I recalled any real wind.
This picture looks back across the bay to the cliffs we walked along yesterday.
This whole latitude discovery helps explain another thing. Sun doesn’t set here until about
10PM.
I thought about stopping in here and buying myself a fiddle but all they sell is clothes. Guess I could have gotten a pair of pants.
I’ve covered 210 miles
in 2 weeks. I hoped to do 100 miles/week so pretty much on pace. I know now that I can really do 100 miles
in 5 days and take 2 days off so I’ve got that going for me…which is nice.
There is a path called the Camino Primitivo that splits off from the Camino del Norte somewhere up ahead. It sounds much more physically challenging. I’ve really done zero research on it as I just heard someone talk about it last night but my curiosity is peaked.
The Camino del Norte eventually turns inland. If the Primitivo doesn’t force me to miss too much beach scenery, I may take it. Something to think about.
Tomorrow’s weather sounds nice so I’ll be getting a move on in the morning.
Happy trails and buen Camino!
Just Pete Hiking 