Well it started out okay…
We had a great walk out of Pobena. Of course we had to go up, lots of slick wet stairs.
We were enjoying it, there was a hand rail which was a plus. After a kazillion steps the path straightened out to a high walled path. Then we continued onto a cliff walk there were nice log rails on the side.
We continued along taking pictures then the trail split, top path was designated for bikes and bottom trail for pedestrians according to sign. We took the bottom path and continued on. Then things went south.
We were just walking along and then there’s a gorge! Which you can see in picture below has these rickety stairs and flimsy rails! I was terrified.
We had to go down the stairs then across the gorge on old wooden planks then back up stairs. Then they have this gate system meant to keep animals inside certain areas by making it a skinny funnel kind of gate. Well we aren’t small with backpacks attached to us, getting thru those things is difficult to say the least. Then the path just ended, there’s a cliff, and a small dirt path to the side, I tell Al, No way, I’m not doing that”. We can go up an incline, which we do, there is another funnel gate to get through and we see a sign on the other side of the fence saying don’t go this way, too dangerous!!!! What the heck!
Where was the sign at the other end telling us not to go that way??!!
Then there was the landslide to get across, I knew there had been one just not where on the trail it was. So we climbed over that and it was beautiful, lots to see.
We had to go through this tunnel, once through the other side the trail went down and we went under a freeway and into a small town .
We wound around a little bit then we’re out of the town and we walked up the side of a highway it seemed forever. Surprise another tunnel, this one was much longer. Finally we were walking into Castro-Urdiales, which is a sea side kind of town. There are several beaches and actually a bull ring. Which is where our Albergue was behind the bull ring.
ramblingduo 