Day 22 – Breakfast in Spain

Avilés to Muros de Nalón, 21Km

Avilés was an attractive town with a fine old town square, town hall and many restored buildings. Naturally there was a bar open at 7am for breakfast. It’s one of the things you take for granted in Spain. Try finding anywhere open in London at such an early hour and only charging a couple of euros for coffee and croissant.

This was another day of walking inland from the coast so the scenery was more eucalyptus woodlands and cattle pastures. This is certainly not unpleasant but less enticing than the endless beaches of earlier days nor indeed the industrial relics of yesterday.

Like most pilgrims, I’ve stopped in Muros de Nalón (photo above), another pleasant little place. There’s only one restaurant and frankly it’s the sort of place you’d skip in preference for another place, if there was one. But there isn’t. The owner knows it, the staff know it and so do the customers. We’re grateful for it. I’m avoiding anything Asturian on the menu which narrows it down quite a lot. Salade Mixta again and, if I’m good, rice pudding.