Islares > Laredo – 25 kilometers
Buenas,
Today was clean smells. We learned that Eucalyptus grows well in Cantabria. It’s not native, but well suited to the mountain soil. When we got tired, we plucked the Eucalyptus leaves and rubbed them under our noses, and drank Gazpacho out of a carton. (Best Gazpacho I’ve ever had. Here’s the recipe: 96% tomato, pepper, pepper the spice, and onion. Then, olive oil, and apple vinegar from a special Secret Farm. Salt, and garlic.) We also walked past a towering, sweet-smelling hedge, which turned out to be a hedge of bay leaves. After this feast of smells, lunch, which is our daily bread + plus various bread decorations, entra bien (literially, enters well or goes down easy.)
I also learned that “swimming naked” means you’re still supposed to wear bottoms on the beach. Of course, I only found this out after the fact. I shouldn’t have bent over to investigate those tide pools… Buenas noches.
cdzhouse 