Day 59 - Noja to San Vicente de la Barqu

Today was a kind of rest day as we were getting a bus in and out of Santander to avoid any further urban sprawl nightmares!
So we got up and had a lovely leisurely breakfast at our hotel.
We didn’t have to check out until 12 so could rest up a little longer.
The sun has come back and created a beautiful sparkling sea.
The hotel allowed us to leave our rucksacks in their lobby so we could go exploring rucksack free 🙌.
The sea was calling so we went paddling- it was very cold 🥶
We then went walking further around the coast and the colours were beautiful.
We headed into town for some lunch and found the ‘flowers cafe’ which fed us well.
Then time to collect bags and head for the bus. It took about an hour to get into Santander - a typical busy city full of shopping boulevards, tunnels and underpasses and a very large port area.
We swapped buses in an underground bus station. As we got on the bus the driver informed us that the ticket we had was not for his bus. So there were 2 buses going to the same place at the same time 😳🙄. We got off had a quick conflab that probably the other bus had gone by now or would have done by the time we found out where it was! So bit the bullet and had to buy another ticket 😡
This bus seemed to stop everywhere and took forever to get to San Vicente our destination. And guess what - it was throwing it down as we clambered off the bus- so out came the ponchos!!
We decided on a supermarket tea as both tired by this point. Only 1 type of sandwich left - crab 🦀 😫
Then we spotted some sausage roll type things with cheese and ham - but they were more like pain au chocolates but with cheese and ham instead of chocolate- very odd. So not a great tea. We had a clementine for some health.
So back on the path tomorrow- let’s see what that brings!Read more