Güemes to Santander

We decide to get up earlier this morning as it's going to be hotter today, we aim for 7am to start our walk but don't get away until 7:30am, it is lovely, cool, still and quite on these Spanish country roads, the sounds of birds, roosters, cows and the odd bell accompanys us. The lions share of the 87 pilgrim's staying at the albergue last night were up and gone before the sun rose this morning, so just a few stragglers will overtake us today. Our path today will mainly be on a lovely dirt track over looking the Cantabrian Sea, meandering up and down without any really steep accents or descents. We wind our way along and over headlands with sheer drop offs on one side and fields of corn on the other, it is a truly beautiful walk and I feel very grateful to be here doing this. We eventually come down off the headlands and are walking on the Somo beach it runs for around 4km and we zigzag our way through sun bathers, sand castle builders, dogs, beach gamers and heaps of surfing schools of varying levels. The beach is dotted with hundreds of different coloured and styles of beach umbrellas and it looks so pretty. By the time we come off the beach my ankles and heels are killing me, the downward pressure of the backpack combined with the soft sand has taken its toll, but I recover rather quickly once we get to a bar, take the backpacks off, order a drink and a sandwich and sit for a good half hour, we get a few drops of rain, but thankfully not enough to put our jackets on. We then head to the Los Regina ferry, it costs 4€ and takes about 20 minutes to cross the bay of Santander, we then head to our hotel, book in, shower, grab all the washing and we head to the laundromat, once the washing is done we meet George and go for dinner, we decide to dine at our hotel, it's easy and means we don't have far to go to bed afterwards, we are all tired and looking forward to a good nights sleep.Read more