Day 17 Comillas to Unquera 18.4ml 1531ft – Total 239.2ml 27922ft

I’ll start off with a picture of my shiny new scallop shell. I feel much more like a pilgrim now I have that hanging off the back of my rucksack. I’ve still got the little cockle shell hanging on the left hand side as well though 🙂It was hot from the word go this morning under a blue sky with just wispy thin clouds. A very scenic route over the estuary as we left ComillasAll pavement until we were able to spend the last mile walking along the beach into San Vincent De La Barquera which once again was a very nice seaside town. The Camino itself just skirted the town but we had read some interesting things about it so decided to divert a little and have a look around. Just as we were about to enter the town we met up with a peregrino girl from Ukraine/Canada so we shared a coffee with her, ( we then split up but out of the blue met up with her again later in the day)

Whilst in San Vincent we called in a deli to pickup some goats cheese to have some bread for lunch along the way. Just incase you are interested, here’s what £10 worth of goats cheese looks like. MOST things are cheap in Spain but not allHad a very pleasant lunch watching a local game of Bolo. They seem to take it very seriously in this area

I’ve noticed today that we are getting worryingly close to the Pico’s De Europa which seem to be blocking our path not too far ahead

They appear to go right down to the sea so we will somehow be crossing them shortly.Walking to Llanes tomorrow where we plan to have a day off. Forecast is cooler than today so thank goodness for that. Until then here’s a couple more pictures of things we passed on he way today 🙂