We left the hotel at 0730 backtracking a little to the beach and finding GR - E9 along with the yellow arrow and followed the longer coastline path.
Today was supposed to have only 150m of ascent, but as we have learned, the guide books lie. We found coffee at 1000 in Naves and were surprised to see Marie Teresa from Rome walk in as we were leaving the bar. The bar had no real food so we ate our nuts and walked on.
Inland we could see the peakies, a reminder of what is to come.
We had little road walking but crossed under the freeway twice and walked along train track for sometime.
Walking into Nueva we found lunch and rested our tiring feet. My shin splint or more likely tendinitis began to flair again as JL's heels began talking to her. More friends passed by and it was a nice feeling to recognize fellow pilgrims we last saw in Bilboa.
The final 10.6k into Ribadesella seemed to take forever. We joke as to how far it is to go. It is always 4.9k or just a little more than an hour. About 2k before we arrived JL had to stop.
We found Ribadesella, the Hotel Marina, filled with 50+ high school kids, and have decided to take a rest day in this beach community.
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