La Isla and Gobiendes

Wednesday:-

We arrived in La Isla on Tuesday and found our hotel which was by the beach. On Wednesday morning we walked up to the headland and found the trenches, now restored, a sobering reminder of the Civil War. Then in the afternoon we went to Gobiendes to visit the pre Romanesque church.

Santiago de Gobiendes is only open on the first Wednesday of the month from 2.00pm and you have to either phone or arrive at the nearby Sueve Museum before then. The guided tour was very interesting and this is a good place to visit, just off the Camino del Norte.

Following the suggestion made by the guide we then walked from Gobiendes to Obayu and back along a lovely forest track. This leads to a waterfall and 'fuente' (fountain) and in Gobiendes itself also passes the walk around the local hórreos.

The beach and hotel at La Isla

The trenches on the headland

The church at Gobiendes

The waterfall at Obayu

Hórreo at Gobiendes

Spain 2016

After nearly 5 weeks in N Spain we are now home again. Our plans to walk or take the car various places of interest along the northern Caminos were added to and we have visited some amazing places. Once our photos are sorted we will add posts along the Camino del Norte, the Ruta do Mar, the Camino Primitivo and also the mountain area around Cangas del Narcea. This last is not on the Camino but in the national park. Finally we visited the Picos de Europa and the lakes at Covadonga before returning to Santander via Cabezon de la Sal.

Watch this space!

Our first night was spent at Cóbreces in the little hotel (left in photo) near the church.

It is opposite the steep track where the Camino comes into the village