Short distance, long day

Cabañes to Cicera, 14.5 km, 850 m

It was after 10 when I left the albergue with my 8 new friends. That’s what happens when you have breakfast at 8:30! The idea was that we would all walk together for a kilometer or two, and then I would turn off to intersect with my “backwards route” at the river. Well, that didn’t work, and I couldn’t see a direct way to intersect with my Wikiloc tracks. So I just went back up to town and started over.

It was a beautiful walk, mountains everywhere, lots of kilometers alongside a beautiful river with lots of gushing white water, and then a good 800+ meter ascent to get the heart rate going.

But before that ascent came the beautiful church Santa María de Lebeña. Pre-Romanesque, Mozárabe. Beautiful capitals and horseshoe arches, and an even older slab carved with the sun and some other designs.

The descent to Cicera slowed me down a lot. Lots of moss-covered rocks, mud and puddles all over the place, lots of opportunities to slip and fall. But it was a beautiful forest filled with lovely ferns.

The albergue get here gets pretty bad reviews, and the only place in town left with rooms was a pretty pricey hotel rural.

Two more days till I’m up at the coast. And then I will walk on the coast for a few days, but my time is slipping away here on this Camino.

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