Last week I went with my girlfriend to spend a few days in the north, looking for something different and beaches without jellyfish, so we plan to go to accommodation in Llanes Asturias, a town on the eastern coast of the Principality. Here is the chronicle of the trip:
NOTE: As I bought a PDA with GPS and I have made a good debut in this trip, I'll post the coordinates of some of the sites that were, for those who might be interested.
Wednesday, July 25
Almeria Leaving 10 am, with the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking a smooth ride and not to do the 1000 miles of flip stop and spend the night in Aranda de Duero, in the hotel Tudanca (N 41.62328 º, W 3.68644 º) I had booked in advance. The idea was to reach Aranda, leaving things in the hotel and approach the Mesón El Lagar de Isilla (N 41.67157 º, W 3.68520 º) to visit the underground cellars, but we got tired of traveling and I also have discomfort in one eye and a terrible desire to take my contact lenses. Total, that we shower and we were resting at the hotel until the time of going to dinner. Indeed, the hotel has rooms Tudanca 2 and 4 stars. We stayed in a 2 and the truth is that is fine. It is newly renovated and the room was very new and clean. Very good note for the hotel. The only downside is that it is a little out of town and have to take the car to go to Aranda (about 5 Km).
At night we went to Aranda and we had some tapas at El Lagar, although I expected to have other kinds of caps, however, were typical of wild, sausage, cheese, etc ... We take a brave and a sausage, which were not bad but not worth what they cost, and we went to another site. We chose to enter a place that I remember called El Meson del Pastor or something, where as I was not very hungry we ordered a serving of sausage and a roasted lamb chops. The sausage was not bad, and the chops either, although somewhat scorched by some sites, plus the portion was quite small for what it cost. Total, which between that and the dryness of the waitress who served us did not get along very good memories of the place ... and I also had the right eye like shit, so my mood was not to throw rockets ...
Leaving there we went Direct to find a pharmacy to buy something for my eye, and gave us Visprin, which relieved me a lot and in a couple of days ago I left the eye as a new, less evil ....
And from there to the hotel to go to sleep early in the morning and arrive early at our final destination: Llanes.
Thursday, July 26
breakfast at the cafe. Breakfast was darling and was self-service, with assorted pastries and sandwiches, quite regular. We paid for the room (47 euros-plus, not bad) and once on the road. Once you walk in Cantabria and the landscape becomes greener, but to get to Asturias is when the most beautiful and green everything looks. We arrived at Llanes on one afternoon and checked into the Hotel Finca La Mansion (N 43.40773 º, W 4.75938 º), who had booked in advance. The hotel is very very good, is a 4 star hotel with garden, pool, jacuzzi in the garden, internet terminal, Wifi ... and quite nice, just outside Llanes (about 15-20 minutes walk from the center Village). Staff generally quite pleasant and helpful.
After registering and leaving things in the room, we went for a walk into town to find places to eat. Although the hotel gave us a map and marked us
some places to eat, we already went with the idea visit the Cider would The Warehouse (N 43.42144 º, W 4.75487 º), we had read good things about it. And we were not disappointed at all. We ordered a bottle of cider, some tortos stuffed with Cabrales, picadillo and pretty, and some scallops to Cabrales. All buenisimo. And for dessert, cheesecake and chocolate cake, both home made biscuits and more than good. And all for less than it cost us the scorched chops and sausage ration Aranda: D
already full stomach we went back to the hotel taking another little walk and taking pictures, we got the swimsuit
and went to the Poo beach (N 43.42913 º, W 4.78400 º) about 11 km from Llanes. The lovely beach, although a little crowded. Clean water, not too cold, shallow, and all surrounded by green. And there we spent the afternoon, bathing and taking the little sun was splendid, a lucky catch day and in Asturias.
then back to the hotel, shower, change clothes and again to Llanes, this time by car. We visited the Cubes of Memory in the port of Llanes and then went back to the Cider The Warehouse's take a pitcher of sangria cider (very good and nice and cool), accompanied by potatoes with cabrales, some peppers stuffed with seafood and Cabrales cheese croquettes.
He agreed that these days were the festivities of Santa Ana, so the port area was full of stalls and attractions for children, a stage where he played an orchestra and all crowded.
Back to hotel and sleep ....
Friday, July 27
The hotel breakfast is included in the price, it was buffet style, with enough variety of things. No complaint breakfast. You had to you a toaster for toasting bread, or warming a croissant, thermos with coffee, hot milk dispenser and orange juice and pineapple juice (bottled, of course). Breakfast very little calm in a room with music. Warm croissant with butter and jam, coffee, orange juice and custard for me, and ham and cheese sandwich, juice, coffee with milk and 2 minicroissants for my girlfriend.
We went to see the lakes of Covadonga. That is beautiful and a must. Worth seeing that
environment with loose cows everywhere you will find there so calm in the middle of the road and you have to go dodging. A marvel.
After spending the morning at the lake, we went to Cangas de Onis to eat. We were looking for a place called El Molino de la Pedrera, who had read it was okay, but the address was another place called Cider Villarroel that we are not convinced by the appearance (we wanted something more traditional), so we went to a place called El Abuelo . I made stew (regularcilla, seemed tin) and scallops with cabrales (very bland) and my girlfriend took scrambled garlic (good) and roast lamb (good and very cute). Rice pudding dessert home for me (not bad) and flan for her (good). In short, quite regularcillo. To avoid repeating.
After lunch we went to the hotel, we changed and went in search of Gulpiyuri beach, a beach with no sea. I mean, actually
beach is about 100 meters inland, the water comes through an opening on the rocks, with what looks like a small lake with white sandy shore, but with salt water and where you feel a little wave and tidal effects. The beach of course is very original and worth a visit, although the fund has enough rocks and is a bit uncomfortable to swim in it, besides the water is murky and there are some bugs toddlers in the water and then you climb up quitandotelos gotta go. At first we did not
the beach, and did many laps on foot to find it. Then it was pretty easy to find, just off the highway but we did not score and gave us directions to people who ask us more confused. Total in the end we left the car in the village of Naves, walk across the road and we walk to the beach. We stayed a while and then back to the hotel, we take a swim in the pool and then relax in the Jacuzzi ... to marvel at the jacuzzi! After
rosette spray, watch a TV ratillo and managed to go to dinner. Take this opportunity to take notes on my new PDA to what we had
done not forget anything at the time of writing the chronicle. We decided to go to dinner at the Cider House Poli (N 43.39849 º, W 4.68614 º) in Vidiago doors (not to be confused with Vidiago to dry), a tiny village about 8 km from Llanes. Casa Poli is a local look very rustic, and charming, and eats very well. We ordered a bottle of cider, half a cheese board, half board sausage, scallops and the steak with Cabrales Cabrales. All very good. Moraos we got.
Then back to the hotel, chat a while with a pal to the pocket msn wifi pda connected to the hotel and sleep.
Saturday, July 28
First cloudy day we leave, so instead of going to the beach we go to visit San Vicente de la Barquera, Comillas and Santillana del Mar (all in Cantabria, but Llanes is almost on the border with Cantabria). On the way we turn to visit the Cave of Soplao , on the recommendation of one of the hotel receptionists, but after a long climb up the mountain road we find that if we have not got tickets in advance is a long wait to enter ... besides the temperature inside the cave is 11 degrees and we were going in shorts and flip flops ... Overall, we admire the view and we go down. Detour to the caves
helped us go through a village called Mun
orrodero where we hung in some windows where residents cloths had written PUSSY SLOW! (N 43.36433 º, W 4.48415 º). You see the cars whizzing along the road through the village skimming over houses and will have built a living in a family, and neighbors are up to the eggs. I was amused because they had seen posters and a PowerPoint file they sent me a long time with traffic signals curious, and look what happened to meet them live.
We arrived in San Vicente de la Barquera, took a walk through the village, we visited the castle (N 43.38546 º, W 4.39903 º), (1.20 euros, not expensive but otherwise the view is not very interesting) and admire the Bay, the truth is that it looks nice and has a ma for
curious. From there we headed Comillas, which is also very nice. There we ate at La Aldea (N 43.38593 º, W 4.29208 º) a goat cheese salad with crispy ham (wonderful), a highland stew (terrific) and Roman hake (very good). Ate divinely, really. Comillas
And we went to Santillana del Mar, a well-preserved medieval town, although they are so geared to tourism
pa read more a decoration of a theme park than an authentic village. Nevertheless it is very nice and well worth a visit. They did some shopping of local products and we take something in a very nice cafe called El Jardin del Marqués (N 43.39127 º, W 4.10692 º). Then we went to see the Museum of Altamira, but the caves (well, because the authentic replication can not be visited) could not see them because they also had to wait a while and we were tired already, and total, for a replica ....
We were tired so we went back to the hotel. Cantabria all day in glorious sunshine we did, but on returning to Llanes was cloudy. We wanted to get into the jacuzzi but it had crashed and until the next day did not come to fix it so that garlic and water. We went to the room and as we were blown without dinner we were fried.
Sunday, July 29
Our last day of stay in Asturias is dedicated to see the village of Bulnes, and the pots. To reach the Bulnes need to take a funicular Poncebos since the village is very isolated. The cable car costs just over 17 euros return for tourists, and free for villagers. Is expensive, but the neighbors do not pay of course, tourists have to bear the cost.
The cable passes through the mountain by a straight tunnel just over 2 miles, and leaves you about 200 meters walk from one of the 2 neighborhoods that are divided Bulnes, the village or neighborhood below. Then, on top of this about 300 meters along a path reaches the Castle Hill or Barrio de Arriba. Bulnes is a village frozen in time charm, but the traces of the tourism and are being felt in the trade of traditional products and bars. But it's still a great pleasure to be around there. Visit highly recommended without any doubt. In addition, since Bulnes out some trails to interesting walking routes. You can buy supplies in the town and take a walk along the trails, or make your way back to Poncebos walk instead of using the funicular. Before we left we had a few beers and some potato cabrales in a bar at the entrance of town, along the river, between the trees ... wonderful. Bulnes
After we went to Potes, Cantabria already. Potes is a
beautiful town with lots of charm, of which a pleasure to wander through its streets. They ate lunch at the Meson El Sol (N 43.15340 º, W 4.62653 º) where we were purple with a hot table Liébana products among other things had Boron is a kind of traditional bread pudding in the area and which is very good. They also have machines to pour the cider bottle you put them up, put down the glass on a stand, push a large button and let go a stream of cider on the rim of the glass without being put all lost if you are not very skillful with the pouring. So I can say I was pouring cider myself, but it just half a bottle on the floor. ;)
After lunch we returned to the hotel, we set bathing suit and went to see another beach, this time of Ballota , about 3 km from Llanes. Although you can drive down to pretty close to the beach by a dirt road, we stopped the car in
the edge of the paved road and went down to walk to the beach. Ballota is a beach with strong waves, but that day was pretty calm. There were waves, but not too strong. The shore at least when we went we just had the dry sand, were mostly small areas with stones and sand, and plundered all the people. We had to leave it on the rocks, but then in the wet part of the bank and into the water and it's all sand, except at the ends of the beach there are rocks. Excellent and clarita water. We had a good comfortable bathroom and we took some pictures.
Back to the hotel and the jacuzzi was fixed, so we say goodbye and giving him a bath then went to Llanes for a walk along the Paseo de San Pedro, dine at The Warehouse, with another jug \u200b\u200bof cider sangria accompany the scallops with cabrales and beautiful salad. In his own cider could buy kits with 2 bottles of cider and a glass decorated and between that and some T-shirts and pendants that we bought at a souvenir shop on the day we closed and went to sleep.
Monday, July 30
We packed, had breakfast, we parted and back to Almeria. With a stop for lunch and take diesel. Slightly less than 10 hours driving and over. Until next time ... much remains to be seen in Asturias, so we will return ...
NOTE: As I bought a PDA with GPS and I have made a good debut in this trip, I'll post the coordinates of some of the sites that were, for those who might be interested.
Wednesday, July 25
Almeria Leaving 10 am, with the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking a smooth ride and not to do the 1000 miles of flip stop and spend the night in Aranda de Duero, in the hotel Tudanca (N 41.62328 º, W 3.68644 º) I had booked in advance. The idea was to reach Aranda, leaving things in the hotel and approach the Mesón El Lagar de Isilla (N 41.67157 º, W 3.68520 º) to visit the underground cellars, but we got tired of traveling and I also have discomfort in one eye and a terrible desire to take my contact lenses. Total, that we shower and we were resting at the hotel until the time of going to dinner. Indeed, the hotel has rooms Tudanca 2 and 4 stars. We stayed in a 2 and the truth is that is fine. It is newly renovated and the room was very new and clean. Very good note for the hotel. The only downside is that it is a little out of town and have to take the car to go to Aranda (about 5 Km).
At night we went to Aranda and we had some tapas at El Lagar, although I expected to have other kinds of caps, however, were typical of wild, sausage, cheese, etc ... We take a brave and a sausage, which were not bad but not worth what they cost, and we went to another site. We chose to enter a place that I remember called El Meson del Pastor or something, where as I was not very hungry we ordered a serving of sausage and a roasted lamb chops. The sausage was not bad, and the chops either, although somewhat scorched by some sites, plus the portion was quite small for what it cost. Total, which between that and the dryness of the waitress who served us did not get along very good memories of the place ... and I also had the right eye like shit, so my mood was not to throw rockets ...
Leaving there we went Direct to find a pharmacy to buy something for my eye, and gave us Visprin, which relieved me a lot and in a couple of days ago I left the eye as a new, less evil ....
And from there to the hotel to go to sleep early in the morning and arrive early at our final destination: Llanes.
Thursday, July 26
breakfast at the cafe. Breakfast was darling and was self-service, with assorted pastries and sandwiches, quite regular. We paid for the room (47 euros-plus, not bad) and once on the road. Once you walk in Cantabria and the landscape becomes greener, but to get to Asturias is when the most beautiful and green everything looks. We arrived at Llanes on one afternoon and checked into the Hotel Finca La Mansion (N 43.40773 º, W 4.75938 º), who had booked in advance. The hotel is very very good, is a 4 star hotel with garden, pool, jacuzzi in the garden, internet terminal, Wifi ... and quite nice, just outside Llanes (about 15-20 minutes walk from the center Village). Staff generally quite pleasant and helpful.
After registering and leaving things in the room, we went for a walk into town to find places to eat. Although the hotel gave us a map and marked us
some places to eat, we already went with the idea visit the Cider would The Warehouse (N 43.42144 º, W 4.75487 º), we had read good things about it. And we were not disappointed at all. We ordered a bottle of cider, some tortos stuffed with Cabrales, picadillo and pretty, and some scallops to Cabrales. All buenisimo. And for dessert, cheesecake and chocolate cake, both home made biscuits and more than good. And all for less than it cost us the scorched chops and sausage ration Aranda: D already full stomach we went back to the hotel taking another little walk and taking pictures, we got the swimsuit
and went to the Poo beach (N 43.42913 º, W 4.78400 º) about 11 km from Llanes. The lovely beach, although a little crowded. Clean water, not too cold, shallow, and all surrounded by green. And there we spent the afternoon, bathing and taking the little sun was splendid, a lucky catch day and in Asturias. then back to the hotel, shower, change clothes and again to Llanes, this time by car. We visited the Cubes of Memory in the port of Llanes and then went back to the Cider The Warehouse's take a pitcher of sangria cider (very good and nice and cool), accompanied by potatoes with cabrales, some peppers stuffed with seafood and Cabrales cheese croquettes.
He agreed that these days were the festivities of Santa Ana, so the port area was full of stalls and attractions for children, a stage where he played an orchestra and all crowded.
Back to hotel and sleep ....
Friday, July 27
The hotel breakfast is included in the price, it was buffet style, with enough variety of things. No complaint breakfast. You had to you a toaster for toasting bread, or warming a croissant, thermos with coffee, hot milk dispenser and orange juice and pineapple juice (bottled, of course). Breakfast very little calm in a room with music. Warm croissant with butter and jam, coffee, orange juice and custard for me, and ham and cheese sandwich, juice, coffee with milk and 2 minicroissants for my girlfriend.
We went to see the lakes of Covadonga. That is beautiful and a must. Worth seeing that
environment with loose cows everywhere you will find there so calm in the middle of the road and you have to go dodging. A marvel. After spending the morning at the lake, we went to Cangas de Onis to eat. We were looking for a place called El Molino de la Pedrera, who had read it was okay, but the address was another place called Cider Villarroel that we are not convinced by the appearance (we wanted something more traditional), so we went to a place called El Abuelo . I made stew (regularcilla, seemed tin) and scallops with cabrales (very bland) and my girlfriend took scrambled garlic (good) and roast lamb (good and very cute). Rice pudding dessert home for me (not bad) and flan for her (good). In short, quite regularcillo. To avoid repeating.
After lunch we went to the hotel, we changed and went in search of Gulpiyuri beach, a beach with no sea. I mean, actually
beach is about 100 meters inland, the water comes through an opening on the rocks, with what looks like a small lake with white sandy shore, but with salt water and where you feel a little wave and tidal effects. The beach of course is very original and worth a visit, although the fund has enough rocks and is a bit uncomfortable to swim in it, besides the water is murky and there are some bugs toddlers in the water and then you climb up quitandotelos gotta go. At first we did not the beach, and did many laps on foot to find it. Then it was pretty easy to find, just off the highway but we did not score and gave us directions to people who ask us more confused. Total in the end we left the car in the village of Naves, walk across the road and we walk to the beach. We stayed a while and then back to the hotel, we take a swim in the pool and then relax in the Jacuzzi ... to marvel at the jacuzzi! After
rosette spray, watch a TV ratillo and managed to go to dinner. Take this opportunity to take notes on my new PDA to what we had
done not forget anything at the time of writing the chronicle. We decided to go to dinner at the Cider House Poli (N 43.39849 º, W 4.68614 º) in Vidiago doors (not to be confused with Vidiago to dry), a tiny village about 8 km from Llanes. Casa Poli is a local look very rustic, and charming, and eats very well. We ordered a bottle of cider, half a cheese board, half board sausage, scallops and the steak with Cabrales Cabrales. All very good. Moraos we got. Then back to the hotel, chat a while with a pal to the pocket msn wifi pda connected to the hotel and sleep.
Saturday, July 28
First cloudy day we leave, so instead of going to the beach we go to visit San Vicente de la Barquera, Comillas and Santillana del Mar (all in Cantabria, but Llanes is almost on the border with Cantabria). On the way we turn to visit the Cave of Soplao , on the recommendation of one of the hotel receptionists, but after a long climb up the mountain road we find that if we have not got tickets in advance is a long wait to enter ... besides the temperature inside the cave is 11 degrees and we were going in shorts and flip flops ... Overall, we admire the view and we go down. Detour to the caves
helped us go through a village called Mun
orrodero where we hung in some windows where residents cloths had written PUSSY SLOW! (N 43.36433 º, W 4.48415 º). You see the cars whizzing along the road through the village skimming over houses and will have built a living in a family, and neighbors are up to the eggs. I was amused because they had seen posters and a PowerPoint file they sent me a long time with traffic signals curious, and look what happened to meet them live. We arrived in San Vicente de la Barquera, took a walk through the village, we visited the castle (N 43.38546 º, W 4.39903 º), (1.20 euros, not expensive but otherwise the view is not very interesting) and admire the Bay, the truth is that it looks nice and has a ma for
curious. From there we headed Comillas, which is also very nice. There we ate at La Aldea (N 43.38593 º, W 4.29208 º) a goat cheese salad with crispy ham (wonderful), a highland stew (terrific) and Roman hake (very good). Ate divinely, really. Comillas And we went to Santillana del Mar, a well-preserved medieval town, although they are so geared to tourism
pa read more a decoration of a theme park than an authentic village. Nevertheless it is very nice and well worth a visit. They did some shopping of local products and we take something in a very nice cafe called El Jardin del Marqués (N 43.39127 º, W 4.10692 º). Then we went to see the Museum of Altamira, but the caves (well, because the authentic replication can not be visited) could not see them because they also had to wait a while and we were tired already, and total, for a replica .... We were tired so we went back to the hotel. Cantabria all day in glorious sunshine we did, but on returning to Llanes was cloudy. We wanted to get into the jacuzzi but it had crashed and until the next day did not come to fix it so that garlic and water. We went to the room and as we were blown without dinner we were fried.
Sunday, July 29
Our last day of stay in Asturias is dedicated to see the village of Bulnes, and the pots. To reach the Bulnes need to take a funicular Poncebos since the village is very isolated. The cable car costs just over 17 euros return for tourists, and free for villagers. Is expensive, but the neighbors do not pay of course, tourists have to bear the cost.
The cable passes through the mountain by a straight tunnel just over 2 miles, and leaves you about 200 meters walk from one of the 2 neighborhoods that are divided Bulnes, the village or neighborhood below. Then, on top of this about 300 meters along a path reaches the Castle Hill or Barrio de Arriba. Bulnes is a village frozen in time charm, but the traces of the tourism and are being felt in the trade of traditional products and bars. But it's still a great pleasure to be around there. Visit highly recommended without any doubt. In addition, since Bulnes out some trails to interesting walking routes. You can buy supplies in the town and take a walk along the trails, or make your way back to Poncebos walk instead of using the funicular. Before we left we had a few beers and some potato cabrales in a bar at the entrance of town, along the river, between the trees ... wonderful. Bulnes
After we went to Potes, Cantabria already. Potes is a
beautiful town with lots of charm, of which a pleasure to wander through its streets. They ate lunch at the Meson El Sol (N 43.15340 º, W 4.62653 º) where we were purple with a hot table Liébana products among other things had Boron is a kind of traditional bread pudding in the area and which is very good. They also have machines to pour the cider bottle you put them up, put down the glass on a stand, push a large button and let go a stream of cider on the rim of the glass without being put all lost if you are not very skillful with the pouring. So I can say I was pouring cider myself, but it just half a bottle on the floor. ;) After lunch we returned to the hotel, we set bathing suit and went to see another beach, this time of Ballota , about 3 km from Llanes. Although you can drive down to pretty close to the beach by a dirt road, we stopped the car in
the edge of the paved road and went down to walk to the beach. Ballota is a beach with strong waves, but that day was pretty calm. There were waves, but not too strong. The shore at least when we went we just had the dry sand, were mostly small areas with stones and sand, and plundered all the people. We had to leave it on the rocks, but then in the wet part of the bank and into the water and it's all sand, except at the ends of the beach there are rocks. Excellent and clarita water. We had a good comfortable bathroom and we took some pictures. Back to the hotel and the jacuzzi was fixed, so we say goodbye and giving him a bath then went to Llanes for a walk along the Paseo de San Pedro, dine at The Warehouse, with another jug \u200b\u200bof cider sangria accompany the scallops with cabrales and beautiful salad. In his own cider could buy kits with 2 bottles of cider and a glass decorated and between that and some T-shirts and pendants that we bought at a souvenir shop on the day we closed and went to sleep.
Monday, July 30
We packed, had breakfast, we parted and back to Almeria. With a stop for lunch and take diesel. Slightly less than 10 hours driving and over. Until next time ... much remains to be seen in Asturias, so we will return ...
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