27 July - Day 2 - Santullan to Islares 15km
Good sleep except our neighbours in the next bunk our were up at 4am and one of their many alarms went off loudly after they were up and so woke up the whole room. After nearly killing ourselves on day 1 to get to our pre booked albergue we agreed to take the day easy and have more stops. Santullan to Castro Urdiales was meant to be 2km but took 4.4km so by then coffee and a breakfast tortilla was well overdue, lucky it was a pretty walk through fields. Castro Urdiales got our tick of approval. Very pretty coastal town with cute harbour, old town inviting beaches and the church (which is actually a temple) of Santa MarĂa built circa 13-15th century so it’s old! perched on the hill of the old town. It was closed so had to admire it from the outside which we both actually prefer being pagans. By 9am it was getting hot. We made a friend Harvey on his daily walk who we think was in his 60s. No English so put our ...