We booked into a Pension in Arrenas; there was no kitchen or lounge area so we happily sat on our beds and ate open sandwiches for dinner – you cannot imagine how good a hunk of fresh bread with jamon (ham), cheese, mayonnaise, tomato and lettuce is after a long day cycling. Heavenly. Then we went out to find some wifi – it works well: we buy a glass of wine each (good excuse) and then use the free wifi.
Sunday morning it felt funny to leave most of our luggage in the room and take just the minimal gear for a day hike. We cycled the 5km to the start of the track and locked the bikes up.
I think Julie was quite relieved to see a big “no cycling” sign – this was one of the walking tracks I’d been thinking that perhaps we could include in our cycling itinerary.
The walk along the river Cares was amazing. It’s a gorge carved out of limestone, so the sides are steep. The path was etched out of the rock, with small tunnels in places. To add to it all, there was a fast-flowing canal built near the walking track. The walking track would undulate but of course the canal kept a steady downward gradient, so it disappeared as a tunnel into the rocks and then reappeared above or below us depending on where the walking track had taken us in relation to it.
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