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| Excellent motorway |
It
was time to leave this wonderful spot as there are no facilities to empty and
fill with fresh water. We were feeling a bit brighter, although still coughing
and sneezing. Had heard about a really nice spot overlooking the estuary at Foz
and Jilly could tell us we would be there in less than 2 hours. Negotiated the
road out from camp without any mishaps and wound through some small coastal
roads before taking the A8 motorway from Aviles exiting just before Foz.
There
was very little traffic and such a great road with lots of tunnels through the
hills and bridges over gullies, some great engineering. This northern coast gets
a lot of rain and countryside is really green, lots of fields of maize and
everywhere plantations of eucalypts. And thanks to Vicki, have found that this is
a recently new business in Spain and many people are not happy about them
taking over their farmland.
Wound
down into the small coastal town of Foz and found the large grassed area set
aside for campers, just metres from the estuary with the town nearby. There are
all the facilities for emptying and filling and it is all free. We really
appreciate these sort of places…as do many others, by the end of the day there
were almost 50 campers parked up!
Settled
in and walked into the town for a little look around before stopping off at a tapas
bar. Sampled some great tapas, our waitress didn’t speak English but found a
list in English which was a big help, and some very good Spanish wine (for
medicinal purposes!).
We
were both feeling very heady with our colds (and not from the wine!) and came
back for a wee siesta. Woke up to quite a bit of noise and very surprised to
see the bay in front full of kayaks. Eventually realised that there was a race
and watched as they headed off around the far point before reappearing and
paddling right around the bay and returning directly in front of us to the
finish line. There must have been over 200 kayaks competing, singles, doubles
and a number where the paddlers kneel and use a paddle. The winner arrived back
in about half and hour, but they were still finishing an hour later. We enjoyed
sitting out and watching them all come past.
Both
of us are still coughing and spluttering, this summer cold is not going away in
a hurry.
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| Beautiful beaches along the coast. |
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| Fields of maize and eucalypts |
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| Pretty good parking spot |
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| The tide was just coming in |
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| The kayakers getting ready for the start. |
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| Determined faces of the winners |
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| ...and a fight on for second and third. |
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| First woman home |
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| A town walk |
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| Tapas bar. |
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