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| Different waymark in Asturias |
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| Another rainy day |
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| Man fishing way down in the river |
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| Path over river |
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| Llanes from a distance; it seemed to take forever to get there |
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| Village outside Llanes |
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| Finally we approach Llanes |
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| Low tide |
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| Dancers at a wedding |
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| La Torre del Castillo in Llanes |
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| Details of windows in Llanes |
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| Following the coast |
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| Pam and the Nuestra Senora de las Dolores in Barro |
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| Abandoned monastery |
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| Rocky coastline |
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| Surf's up |
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| Arranged with fresh flower petals for a first communion |
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| Had to rest and lunch at the top of this hill |
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| Typical Asturian horreo (old granary) |
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| Ribadesella |
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| Another horreo |
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| And another |
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| Albergue of San Esteban de Leces |
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| We had the 24 place albergue to ourselves |
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| Camino go right, albergue go left |
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| Horreo |
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| Most houses have one |
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| Here one must decide: Continue along the coast or take the Camino Primitivo inland and through the mountains |
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| Good resting spot |
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| Monastery San Salvador in Valdedios |
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| Church in Monastery, consecrated in 893 |
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| Pola de Siero |
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| El toro (actually an ad for Sherry) |
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| Puente medieval in Colloto |
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| Oviedo - raining again |
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| Famous Fabada Asturiana (beans, chorizo, blood sausage) |
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| Oviedo - storm coming |
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| Ovideo |
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| Waymarks in Oviedo |
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| Pouring sidra the traditional way |
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| Beer ad along the Camino |
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| Pilgrims - this way |
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| Narrow gorge, medieval bridge at Pena Flor |
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| Big horreo |
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| Grado |
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| Grado plaza |
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| Cava break - Salud! |
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| On the way to Salas |
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| Walking in cloud - again |
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| And there was mud - again |
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| Monastereo del Salvador in Cornellana, looked abandoned |
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| Back of the same monastery |
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| Typical wooden outdoor shoes, worn over the inside slippers |
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| Path - follow the arrows |
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| Pilgrim and dote cote |
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| Salas |
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| Salas |
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| Wayside shrine |
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| Old water mill, swallowed up by the jungle |
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| Road leading into Tineo |
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| In Tineo |
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| Tineo - built on a steep hill, the old part at the top |
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| Beautiful forest |
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| We made a small diversion to visit the old Monestero de Obona, dating from 780; it was a pilgrim's hospital |
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| Bit wonky, but still standing |
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| Pola de Allende, had a great lunch here at Hotel Nueva Allendesa |
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| Path goes through a house |
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| Long hike uphill beside a pretty stream |
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| First horreo with a slate roof |
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| View from the top, the highest point on Camino Primitivo at 1300 meters |
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| Barren, but pretty flowers in bloom |
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| Montefurado, we followed the ridge before descending |
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| Iglesia Lago |
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| Running of the cows! |
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| Stone fences |
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| Lunch inside the Albergue La Mesa - cold and wet outside but we continued on |
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| Tiny chapel, local materials |
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| Descending to the Embalse de Salime, all the way down, then back up again |
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| Embalse de Salime |
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| These stone walls are to keep the osos (bears) out of the honey |
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| Bee hives inside the stone walls, only at Grandes de Salime |
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| Grandes de Salime, after a 40 km+ walk today |
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| Man watering his donkey |
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| Takes a few centuries to get the mossy roof look |
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| Jeff resting at the top of the hill before we cross into Galicia |