Murias to Foncebadón

A reasonable nights sleep but woke up with a bit of snoring and someone playing music on their phone! Not loudly but enough to wake me up despite earphones. Quite a tricky bunk bed as very low headroom and a long way from the bathrooms! So would stay again if I could get a room as food was good and company was fun.
Set off at about 7.10. A long slow up through Santa Catalina de Somoza (coffee - sadly best cafe closed) and El Ganso (lovely stop for coffee and toast at the end of the village in a house with cafe and tiny supermarket). There bought lunch of gazpacho and bread too.
Then on to Rabanal. A beautiful walk of about 6k through trees with flowers and birds. Interesting birds today were Dartford Warbler, Garden Warbler, Ortolan Bunting and Greater Whitethroat. Even saw the Dartford Warbler which was exciting.
At Rabanal had a drink and went into the monastery church.
Then onwards and upwards to Foncebadón. There is still some snow on a mountain we can see from here - we are at about 1400m and that mountain is at about 2180m.
Arrived very hungry and quite tired so had beer and chips before showering.
Place we are staying in - Albergue Trasgu de Foncebadón - seems good and the shower is great (always important). Have now had an ice cream too (nothing but carbs today!) and planning an early supper.
Goats cheese salad for supper - and another very good one - followed by chamomile tea. Increasingly windy outside - the waitress said they haven’t really had any summer yet here. Again, it’s about 20c cooler than it was last year at the same time. Planning a river swim tomorrow but not sure that’s going to happen as forecast isn’t great. But I live in hope …Read more