Santander, 7 miles
Le Petit Boutique Hotel, wonderful. Clean. New. Nice section of the city, though not anywhere near the camino. A block from the water and walking areas.
Yay, a day in place! We had a nice breakfast at the hotel with Carol and Matthew and then waved them off in a cab to the airport.
We then went back up to our room to investigate what to do. I’d done some exploring last night and discovered – there’s nothing to do! There is a 2 block area of the old city, per our hotel host, but when I used all kinds of words to see what there is to do in Santander, all the trips were leaving to go somewhere else. A monastery. Incredible caves (too late to get tickets) with prehistoric paintings. But in the city, finally found a maritime/aquarium museum. Rick and I were so relieved. We could just chill with no agenda.
We walked out to the lighthouse and back and decided, we’d done enough.
The rock formations along the beaches are so cool, I guess further along the coast, they turn and are lined up like books. We’ll miss that because it needs an extra day to go that way. But even here where you can see the slabs, it’s great. And then beyond the beach shows where the high tide line is, but until then it’s just long, flat and perfectly sandy for ages. Such a good place to learn surfing or swimming. Way too cold for us, but a fair number of people are going in to swim or play. Surfers are all in wetsuits.
We then went back to the same restaurant for lunch (there’s no way that would have happened with C&M here). Rick then worked in the room, I did laundry at a laundromat a few blocks away.
We both had some time sitting down by the water, just watching. Such a great day – and the weather was beautiful again!
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