It is our final night in Spain. We are catching a coach tomorrow that leaves Ribadesella at 5 am! We lunched at a tapas bar and walked along the estuary afterwards. Ribadesella is very photogenic with its backdrop of hills covered in clouds. We saw lots of Salmon swimming up river to Spawn. We are staying at a small guest house called Pension Arbidel. The rooms have been built up the hillside and are really quaint and Spanish. Because we had a big lunch we d...

Asturias is a wonderful place, majestic hills, lovelely coastline with a backdrop of snow covered mountains. Yesterday we went to Ribadesella a wonderful little town that is well worth visiting. It has beautiful beaches, a charming estuary walk, quaint little shops and a harbour walk out alongside the harbour entrance. The town is unspoilt and the people are really friendly, if you want to enjoy an unspoilt Spanish seaside town this is the place to come. The...

This week we are helping Paul to paint his house. Luckily the weather has been good and fairly warmish peeking at about 20. The wind can be a bit chilly on the hills, but as you walk down towards Playa De Vega on the coast it becomes warmer. There is a great beach with a couple of bars. It seems to be popular with surfers and sun bathers that like to wander around au natural!

We arrived in Asturias on Monday evening by coach after giving the driver the address. He stopped the coach and we got off in the middle of nowhere with a mountain to climb (actually a very steep hill) half an hour later we reached our destination, a small holding with a cottage made of straw bales and house that is currently being renovated. Where were we sleeping? In a caravan of course! No electric or facilities - great fun this workaway...

Docked in Santander and took the coach to Ribadesella. The bus station has a quaint little cafe attached when you walk in everyone stops talking and looks at you as you walk to the counter. They all started talking again once we were served. A very intense card game was going on with lots of arm waving, it reminded me a bit of the Post Office! Anyway a quick pit stop then onto another smaller bus which took us on a windey road up into the hills. We did start t...