Stroll on
The phone rang on Thursday, it was Julio, one of the walking group. He wanted to know if I fancied going for a walk this weekend. I said where and he said something about San Melchor and the Aramo, we’d walk on Saturday and stay overnight at an albergue, then walk a bit more on Sunday. Sounds good, I said, okay.
We took the bus from Oviedo at 8am yesterday, one of the city buses. We went to the end of the line and started walking. The plan, eventually was this.
Walk from Puerto (the end of the bus line) to Pedroveya, about 7km on country roads. Pause for a drink in the bar there.
Walk up over the western end of the Aramo (the big series of hills you can see to the South of Oviedo) via a pass at La Rebollada, head down into the village of Bermiego where we’d ask if they’d do us some lunch (Julio had been raving about the egg and chips there). Take our time there, have a rest (after another 10km or so).
Down into Arroxo (7km more) to stop at the albergue (hostel) there, have dinner, sleep.
Sunday, walk along the Senda del Oso (the bear path) to Proaza and catch a bus back to Oviedo.
Which is exactly what we did. The only downsides were; on the way over La Rebollada there was mud that was knee deep and it was a bit of an adventure. Then, when we got to Bermiego, the owner said his wife was at her mother’s house and she was the one that did the cooking. so we settled for a plate of ham and chorizo and cheese instead and spent a couple of hours talking with him (he told us he used to go up over the mountain for parties in Pedroveya (but on a horse, of course). And the weather, we were walking in mist for much of the time (Julio’s phrase of the day: ‘me cago en su mar’ which can be translated as bloody hell, and is literally a scatalogical maritime mashup… I crap in it’s sea… mar can be replaced by leche (milk) madre (mother) and for maximum offense dios (god)). Still, it was good fun. He’s already talking about a four day walk from Oviedo to Covadonga by the mountain routes…
Tags: julio, san melchor, walking
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