Day Eight: Castro Urdailes to Santona

We took advantage of the privacy to sleep in just a little comprimisng on the a 715am alarm. We had been up later than expected looking for places to eat. I am always caught off gaurd how we will arrive somewhere and it is quite calm and peaceful and then siesta ends and the streets beging to swell. People dont go straight to dinner either they first get a drink and a snack (theres a name for it but i cant remeber) and then they begin having dinner around 830 or 9. It also didnt help that it was saturday night. But despite some aimeless wandering we found a place. We continued today to get mode dramatic coast lines and were given a nice break from all the pavement for some time. The three of us joke a lot that we've become boogie pilgrims, leaving around 7 or 8 (most pilgrims seem to be up and on the road by 6am!!), and then stopping for first and second breakfast before lunch. But its what we like and the camino has something different for everyone. We also decided that we would be called the White Lotus, a homage to the secret society good guys in Avatar the Last airbender. As we we are all quite non drama and try to be respectful as much as possible, something that cant always be said for other pilgrims. Our feet continue to be sore and the extra weight from all the extra clothes I brought seemed to be catching up to me today. I really needed to focus when going up hills. After some amazing views and scaling some large hills we decended into Laredo. Another larger vacation city situated in a cove of sorts. It was like a penisula with something like a 5-6km beach running its length. We stopped at the hostel there and even though they had beds we decided to take the ferry out of Laredo into Santona. The hostel there said they were full but if we showed up they would call "families" and we thought that would be a worthy experience. We bumped into Samuel and Timothy again. They seem to make their once a day appearance, to give us the scoop on the town or the latest tea and keep going. It almost feels like they are ths NPCs of a video game. At the hostel the two other girls from germany arrived at the same time and the guy running the hostel was very frustrated with them over a miscommunication. It was really akward but i barely had any idea what was happening. He did indeed call "families" and he shuffled all 5 of us outside to meet this lady that was taking us to her apartment. It was tiny. And we laughed to ourselves over the situation we got ourselves in. We blew up an airmatress in tbe living room and i rolled out my mat. The girls took the bedroom. The three of us went down for a quick swim and dinner before settling in for the night.Read more