Xago

Around Avilés there are two beaches that are said to be the best beaches for surfing when in Asturias. Las Salinas (west) and Xago (east).
We went to Xago as were heading east in general.
From Avilés the road leads through a huge industrial quarter where towers for windmills are built. For kilometres this is the only thing you see - a big field as „storage“ for massive pipe-like heavy tower-parts lying around. This was a bit of a throwback in time for us, since we saw many Siemens Gamesa, Nordex and Vestas imprints on those. (Nordex was one of Marnies biggest clients when working for Siemens.)
So after passing through this industry-district we arrived at the beach. Jaro really didn’t want to sit in his car seat anymore and made that loud and clear. So we went to check out if there are some waves and if we could possibly surf - and boy! Waves are back and huge! Unfortunately too huge and quite „unorganised“. For the rest of the day we tried to figure out where to go next and what to do, as it was still rainy (annoying when traveling with the van) and the surroundings didn’t seem to be as camper-van friendly.
The parking lot at the beach had bad reviews and it wasn’t recommended to stay; but as the evening unfolded we decided to stay since it was nice vibe there with seemingly nice people. We spent a quiet night and found a place for us to go the next day..Read more