2 June - Navia

We are day 15 today and fingers crossed bodies are holding up. The Luarca seagulls were quieter than in Cudillero. Jude thinks she has now mastered Seagull as well as Spanish! 

We pretty sure, for the second hotel in a row, we may have been the only people in the hotel. The hotel was a classic old building modernised and quaint, but still with an undulating roll on the floor. We were on the 3rd floor and walking down the spiral staircase gave a new meaning to the word spiral!

Today has been an overcast, very warm day with dry tracks and a mild 340m ascent.  An easy 21kms across farm dirt roads and back country roads. We didn't see the Italian and Chilean guys who are walking 40km a day with packs  (they are much, much younger than us).  They were also the only pilgrims we met yesterday, and that was at dinner! However on our exit we did come across a group of Germans and at morning tea some Dutch pilgrims. Truly inspirational was a Spanish guy in a wheelchair and his female companion. They had hitched from Barcelona to Luarca to start the walk and intend to go to Santiago.  This guy travels the world doing these sorts of challenges.  He has even made a movie of his trip to N.Z.