Day 67 - Aviles to Soto del Barco

We woke up and opened the noisy shutters! Then headed for breakfast- the usual coffee, orange juice, croissants and a pinxos
Then onto today’s walk in a sultry, overcast and close day - with no breeze☹️
On the whole it was a fairly uninspiring walk, initially through the suburbs of Avilés (all uphill) then into fields and lanes then into woodlands.
We passed through a couple of towns which were all pavement then on into more woodlands.
Simon felt we were in the logging centre of Asturias, logging trails and very muddy.
We got called over a main road by a group of strimming men and had to hand clap our way through the heavy alley of nettles and bracken they were sorting out.
Trevor disagreed with the route that the shells and yellow arrows were taking us - we showed him who was boss and he re routed to agree with us. We climbed several hills and then descended into heavy clay tracks and a poisonous pond where we decided not to have a swim 😆
Then on into our destination where we stopped for a very well priced lunch before finding our lodgings for the evening.
After a shower we headed out for water and light refreshments 😉
And we were entertained by the local WI who went into a spontaneous singsong.
On the local screen the Spanish equivalent of ‘the chase’ came on. We attempted to translate and answer the questions 😂
We both managed to get one right 🙌🙌 Bradley Walsh’s equivalent looked like a young Gary Barlow in Mary’s opinion 😆
So we prepare to rest for the evening as a challenging 20k tomorrowRead more