Sunday, 31 May 2009

To the Picos de Europa mountains

Its Sunday and the day many campers change sites, including us, but we seem to be about 3 hours behind everyone else. We were heading towards Llanes along the scenic A8 autoroute, mountains on one side and misty coast on the other. Fortunately the mist had dispersed by the time we reached LLanes. The beach was very busy, could not park on the Aire, whilst the town appeared to be full of confirmation parties with girls in pretty white dresses and their extended families. We finally parked within walking distance of the harbour and had typical Spanish lunch (menu del dia) in a nice restaurant perched above the beach. The final part of the day involved a 40 mile drive to Potes in the Picos de Europa national park. 20 km of this is through a 'spectacular' narrow gorge formed bythe river Deva. Spectacular that is unless you have big motorhome, - Mike had a another name for it - but we made it unscathed and found the site easily. Relaxing with a well deserved drink and view of the mountains it was worth the effort.

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