Posts by shinypenguin

Pictured below: Our guides (Mario & Jorge), Grandpa & Tom. This was taken after the hike. Grandpa proved that slow and steady wins the race! This was a moderately strenuous…

This picture doesn't do it justice.

Today we hiked 2 hours out and 2 hours back. Out was a continuous uphill climb until the point denoted by the sign pictured below. Then beyond was a gradual…

View from our hotel. We are staying in Picos de Europa national park in a town called Tama. Today we drove 20k to Fuente De to take the cable car…

Top of the cable car.

Today we had a tourist day, only walking 10km. We took a diversion to walk barefoot on the beach. This is Connor making a design in the soft sand...others are…

Today we began walking on the Camino de Santiago. It was a warm day with blue skies when we started. About 3 hours later we were met with a light…