Wednesday, August 17, 2022 – A very rainy day.

Breakfast at the alburgue started at 7:00 AM and the van was scheduled to take us to Casa Pepito on the Camino at 7:30. We woke up at 6:30 and it was raining as hard as the Noah’s Ark biblical flood. We packed and had toast for breakfast and got completely soaked in the 30 seconds it took for us to run from the alburgue to the van and throw our backpacks into the back of the van.

We got down to Casa Pepito and the little old lady who owns the alburgue opened the back hatch of the van, watched us unload our packs, gave us a big hug and a Buen Camino and drove away. We scampered under a little overhang to get out of the rain and assess our situation. Then the rain stopped and we saw a little patch of blue sky. We decided we should start walking and hope the rain would hold off for a couple of hours while we climbed the mountain to the next town, Deva. We got about a mile outside Peon, and our starting point for the day, Casa Pepito, when big black thunderheads come rolling over the mountain and the skies opened up, pouring a firehose rain on us. We were close to a barn and ran into it to take shelter. When we got into the barn we realized that there was a goat and a farmer in the barn. The goat was bleating like it was the end of the world and the farmer was not at all happy that we were in his barn.

This is a huge cider barrel outside the barn where we took shelter from the storm. They make a lot of apple cider in Peon.

View of the Peon valley when the storm finally abated.

We stayed in the barn for about 30 minutes and the deluge finally abated. The skies still looked very threatening so we decided to backtrack to Peon and call a cab to take us to Gijon. Two hours later a cab appeared and by 12:40 we were at the alburgue in Gijon. We have a 10 by 10 foot room with a bunk bed, a desk and our own bathroom.

This is our alburgue.