Being a Bather not a Biker

My present stopover is a family run B&B three miles east of Ribadesella, and as FB friends have been urging me to get out swimming, from one of the many beautiful beaches, I had to think ‘travel light’ from a completely new angle. 

I managed to wrap my two Liteloks around the tiny backrest, as these would be needed to secure my helmet jeans and jacket whilst swimming. There is just enough space under the seat for my wallet, phone and room key. The rest of my stuff was in the Triumph shoulder bag which I left on a rock not far from where I swam. Everything went, dare I say ‘swimmingly’, and after my dip I dried off by walking the mile beach and back.

On returning to Reg everything was still how I left it, which came as no great surprise as the Liteloks were threaded through the arms of my jacket, one of the legs of the jeans and the chin bar of the helmet.

The beach was now getting busy, but it’s so vast that everybody had plenty of space unlike the roads and car parks which get so rammed the local cops are on permanent point duty! Fortunately on every street there are dedicated free parking bays for motorbikes, in fact I never saw any parking charges for any of the on street or car park parking, nor any time constraints, a little different from over populated England!

After the usual tourist walk around town I treated myself to a monkfish lunch, to say ‘treated’ is maybe overstating it, as it was half a dozen battered pieces of fish with a little mayonnaise and a slice of lemon oh, and four chunks of bread, very tasty though!

Mid afternoon (when it gets quite hot) it was back to the B&B to wash off all the salt and plan my onward journey for the day after tomorrow. 

It’s going to be west out of Asturias and into (even greener) Galicia, first stop will be two nights at Limés and then three nights at Gres, just outside Santiago de Compostela, then I’ll have to see about heading south via a visit to see Carlos.