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  • Day 3

    Camino 2: Itziar - Gerekiz

    June 22, 2021 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    Oh, the weather outside is frightful!

    An hour of intermittent sun 🌞⛅ to start the day, and then several shades of grey 🌧️ all day. Last view of the Flysch rock formations leaving Deba, and opted for the coastal route on the bike to Markina as the oficial Camino would have been impossible by bike today.
    Had to visit St. Michael's in Markina to see the rocks the ermita was built around. Then on to Guernica, the town which gave the name to Pablo Picassos famous painting 🎨 currently in the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid. The painting depicted the devastating bombing of the city in 1937. Saw a nice mural of the painting and then the Tree of Guernica and people's park, both very nice.
    But I was soaking wet so had to keep moving, had hot lentejas for lunch with some Dorado 😋, and then off to an Albergue about 10km outside town on the way to Bilbao.

    Morning Soundtrack:
    Song of the Sea by Lisa Hannigan

    Some electropop to get me through the rain 🌧️ without windscreen wipers!:
    Blue Monday by New Order
    I feel love by Donna Summers
    Running up that hill by Kate Bush
    and some Kitsune Maison to keep the tempo up!
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