Llana - Asturias

The last few days we've stayed in good albergues. Last night it was in Comillas, a very pretty fishing/holiday town. This area has many scattered medieval holiday towns with beautiful beaches, many caves such as Alta Mira (with Paleolithic cave art). The weather and walking has been spectacular - everyone says it can't last- Tomorrow we hit the half way mark. Within two days we decide wether we walk across the Picos de Europa (the highest peaks in the Iberian Pen), we can see them in the distance and the siren call is drawing us that way - some concern about weather.
People we've met
· the 2 Belgium boys - they've walked from Brussels, the young one is 17! They mainly sleep out as their budget is 25 euros per day between them - people have been very generous- they both say they are using the walk to consider their future.
· Vilma the Swedish girl - she has walked from Sweden. We've crossed paths at many albergues. She walked with us for one day after an upsetting experience with one of the lycra clad cyclists (which is concrete evidence supporting my contention that they are all wankers!)
·Elizabeth from Denmark - she walked the Camino Frances and decided immediatly to do the Northern Camino in three years but after 3 days she decided to sell her flat and all her possions and head back to spain immediatly. She has spent 1 month in Guemes because she lost all her bank cards etc and was fixing things up; in the meantime she has been adopoted by the locals, they all call her daughter (when they hug the local women look like the kids as she is over 6ft and they about 5ft!)- she has spent the time learning Spanish.
·We've also spent time with 2 basque economists doing part of the walk-
·The Canadian from Ottawa doing his 5th camino (just retired from the public service)- he's heading for the Picos about 1 day ahead now.
·Last night we had dinner at the albergue with 3 Taiwanese girls, 2 Argentinian students, a French Canadian student, the 2 Belgium boys and a couple of Spaniards.