San Vicente de La Barquera

We woke to the sound of rain – quite heavy rain!! As a result, we abandoned the idea of a final morning swim and decided to head straight for Llanes where we planned to look around before heading to our next stop of San Vicente de la Barquera. The next campsite, Camping El Rosal, is located between two beautiful beaches, so we decided that there would be plenty of opportunity to swim when the skies cleared.

This current campsite (La Paz) was quite expensive at 43€ a day, but still excellent value considering the seafront location and great facilities. Today’s one is 28€ a night, which is more standard.

Dave had some trouble finding adequate parking in Llanes with no height restriction. We passed one suggested out of town car park which would’ve entailed a horrible walk along the road into the town. When we approached the town, it was a lot more built-up than we imagined so we pulled into a supermarket car park to think it through. We noticed that in quite a few of the reviews of the place people had commented on inadequate parking. So, unless you were actually staying there, it was not an easy place to pop in for a day visit. I went and got a few provisions in the supermarket while Dave tried to find an alternative car park and we then decided to go straight to our destination and give Llanes a miss. This was a real shame because in the vast majority of places we had found there was a free public car park and had often commented on how nice and convenient this was.

We had driven through San Vicente last year and planned to return. We found a nice spot and then noticed that somebody was leaving (plot 66) on the next level up and they had a prime view. I ran up the hill to reserve the space. We were in luck, and as a result, had another fantastic view -this time across to the town, with the estuary, beautiful bridges and mountains in the distance.