Friday, August 19, 2022 – Muros de Nalon to Soto de Luina – The Camino provides an 80 year old man to guide us to breakfast.

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View from the bedroom window this morning.

We got an early start out of the alburgue in Muros de Nalon. It was so early that the café across the square was not open for breakfast. We trudged out of town assuming that as we walked we would soon find an open cafe for breakfast.

View from the Way looking out to the ocean in the distance. No breakfast yet.

We continued to trudge through the forest until we came upon a charming little town that unfortunately did not have any place to have breakfast.

Nice map of the Way.
This is an art museum. The grounds and the building were stunning. I asume this was a rich guy’s estate that died and wanted it turned into an art museum. He should have left it to the town to run as an alburgue and café for weary, hungry and thirsty pilgrims. Still no breakfast.
This is Marco and Jose at the Hotel Luna cafeteria.

As we were ambling out of town, this old guy, Jose, was out for a walk and as he passed us we asked him if he knew where a couple of hungry pilgrims could get a bite to eat. He told us to follow him. We walked about half a kilometer off the Camino and he took us to his favorite breakfast spot, the cafeteria at the Hotel Luna. Jose is 80 years old and has walked all the Spanish Caminos. He said he recently walked the Primitivo and didn’t think it was that hard. He said I was a mere adolescent at 67 and I should not complain about how hard the Norte is.

What a great breakfast. A ham and egg pintxo and a chocolate donut 🍩. Yum.

After breakfast we hit the road again and started to climb. We were rewarded with this stunning view.

We are on the top of a hill and of course we need to walk down a steep road to continue on our Way.
As we were walking down the road I noticed this candy jar. Isn’t that nice.

The Spanish road authority built a coastal road along the north coast of Spain. When they hit a valley, and there are plenty of steep valleys along the north coast of Spain, this is what they did.

Very impressive piece of road building.

When we got to the bottom of the hill we walked along the beach until the Way took a left and started climbing up a very steep hill.

Beautiful creek flowing out of the hills and into the ocean.
Our final destination. Soto de Luina.

We had to spend an hour walking down a very steep and rocky woodland path to get to the paved road leading to Soto de Luina. I was very careful coming down this steep slope using my poles and cautiously choosing every step of this descent.

We finally got to the hard road and walked about a kilometer to the edge of town.
We have arrived at our alburgue.

It was a little before 2:00 PM when we arrived at the Alburgue Vieja del Sastre. We decided to have a late lunch and boy were we in for a surprise. We had the best meal so far on this Camino.

The glasses contain sparkling cider with a little bit of whiskey to accompany our first course, salmon croquettes.
The next course was a leek and halibut soup with a dash of paprika.
The main course was hake, which is a flaky white fish, with a prawn sauce.
I snapped this picture of our table as we were leaving. What a magical setting and what a memorable lunch.
This sign is in the lobby of the alburgue. Coors is everywhere.

We walked 25,000 steps, 18 kilometers and climbed the equivalent of 40 flights of stairs.

Today I am very grateful to have the opportunity to walk the Way again and share it with you.

I hope you are having a good day wherever you are. Good night from Soto de Luina.

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I've been retired from the Union Pacific Railroad since 2017. I've been planning to walk the Camino for about 6 months and can't wait to get started.

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