We left Guemes about 7:30 this morning. After Father Enrique and his volunteers worked so hard to put out bread, some kind of nut bar (?) And trimmings like jam, hot milk pitchers, hot water and tea bags, and coffee, we had to spend a minute in the dining room with them.
Father Enrique's stories about how the albergue came to be, and some of his family history, were very interesting. He also showed route information on the map to everyone.
We mostly took the coastal walk today--didn't get the tablet out to make path pictures, sorry--and most of it was lovely. Only a couple of muddy bits. Then we walked on the sand of the beach of Somo for maybe a quarter mile or so, until the beach access just before the last house. There was a bar there. In my opinion those folks have a license to print money. They certainly sold us some coffee and tea and a slice of tortilla with tuna and tomato on top. There are no other bars on this beach, and it looked like that was the only beach access, too.
We took the ferry ride across to Santander. This city is reasonably big.
What do you do if the connected building in the middle of the row is wrecked? The others were depending on it. Answer, you leave a bunch of beams in between and add some metal braces to keep it all up. We have seen this solution in other places, too, here in Spain.
Tomorrow we will head towards Santillana del Mar. As it will be Tuesday I hope museums will be open. (Today no museums in Santander were open. It's Monday.)
Ultreia.
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