Friday 12 October
Up to Fuente De, for Andy's other big goal this holiday, a cable car ride up to the the top of this mountain 2000 feet up ( I thought my friend Theresa is definitely not going to like this). We queued for an hour and got chatting to a delightful Spanish couple who were helpful and friendly and keen to discuss bigger issues, eg independence movements and their implications. We all finally discovered the cable car was shut for the day due to high winds, not opening for the rest of the day. I breathed a sigh of relief, Andy a bigger sigh of disappointment. We decided to cut our losses on this public holiday weekend in Spain on this Christopher Columbus day and head for the beach. We packed up and made our way to Comillas, a smart coastal town housing El Capriche (Gaudi's design), the place was heaving with tourists so we moved onto San Vicente de la Barquera further along the coast and booked into a family surfer campsite El Rosales , sandwiched between a sheltered beach suitable for swimming and a very popular surfers beach. A very tiring day, good to be on the coast 23 degrees and warm enough to sit out at night again
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| The old cable car cabins - replaced a couple of years ago when we last failed to get up it! |
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| San Vicente de la Barquera |
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