The details: 11 miles walked, 170 miles total.
Before getting into a description of today’s travel, I want to talk about food. One feature of Spain is their enjoyment of a high-quality late evening meal. For a Spaniard, starting dinner at 10 p.m. is not at all a problem. For a pilgrim, anything after about 7 p.m. requires a sheer force of will as they are so hungry from the day’s walk and also tired. We arrived into the town of Guemes to a spectacular bed and breakfast.
In this town, there were three hotels, 1 hostel, and only one place to eat. While a typically friendly place, this dining establishment would, under no circumstance consider starting their evening meal before 8:30. Okay. Unfortunately, the cook was a bit late arriving to work that afternoon and so dinner wasn’t started until about 9:15. With no particular rush, the meal ended about 11:15. Again it was a wonderful place to eat at, but they had no particular appreciation for the pilgrim need to sleep. It was, after all, our problem.
So, satisfied but tired, we returned to our bed and breakfast before an abbreviated night’s sleep.
The next morning we awoke to a beautiful sunrise 
and possibly the best breakfast we have had in Spain and possibly all of Europe. The owner of our bed and breakfast did an amazing job here.
Enough about about food. There are two routes into Santander, both requiring a ferry for the last kilometer. There is the direct route which is about seven and a half miles, and the coastal road which is about 11 miles. Our decision was to take the coastal route for the beauty. Unfortunately, we didn’t realize that we were well on the way along the short route and had missed the turn for the coastal route. Not to be dissuaded, we turned around and found our way back to the coast around adding about 2 more miles to our journey.
This route was also beautiful. 
And after a few kilometers, we had our first view of Santander.
All that was left was 2 miles of walking on a beach and then taking a ferry across to Santander.
In short order we found our hotel room and are quite comfortably cleaned and ready to explore the town.
What an awesome day you had! And thank you so much for posting the pictures of your breakfast! What a meal. I can see you have a Peregrino may not lose any weight, if they ate like that every day. I don’t know about turning around and I’m adding another 2 miles onto a long walking day, but that’s why you’re doing that part of the trip, LOL.
Did you do something different with your images when you took the pictures? Because all of them looked good on my iPad and iPhone.. None of them were sideways; none of them were squished. So whatever you did, keep taking the pictures the same way and posting them that way too!
Love you both!
Greetings. Yes, Pilgrim could gain weight if they ate like that every morning. The good news is, there is no chance of eating like that every morning. A typical Spanish breakfast might have a small piece of toast with a little marmalade and a short cup of coffee. Not a whole lot of calories there! We usually push the envelope and try to find orange juice, and some other type of bread, and will typically buy yogurt the evening before to consume in the morning.
Regarding the photos, the reason they appeared normal on the iPhone was because they were all taken in landscape mode. When I take photos in portrait mode they always show up shifted 90 degrees Kama which requires me to edit them and rotate 90 degrees. It seems not to be a problem 4 non iPhones or for computers. If there are non iPhone users were having problems with the photos, let me know.
Cheers, we have a long day today so we need to get started. That’s to the block button response to Willow
What an awesome day you had! And thank you so much for posting the pictures of your breakfast! What a meal. I can see you have a Peregrino may not lose any weight, if they ate like that every day. I don’t know about turning around and I’m adding another 2 miles onto a long walking day, but that’s why you’re doing that part of the trip, LOL.
Did you do something different with your images when you took the pictures? Because all of them looked good on my iPad and iPhone. None of them were sideways; none of them were squished. So whatever you did, keep taking the pictures the same way and posting them that way too!
Love you both!
What an awesome day you had! And thank you so much for posting the pictures of your breakfast! What a meal. I can see you have a Peregrino may not lose any weight, if they ate like that every day. I don’t know about turning around and I’m adding another 2 miles onto a long walking day, but that’s why you’re doing that part of the trip, LOL.
Did you do something different with your images when you took the pictures? Because all of them looked good on my iPad and iPhone. None of them were sideways; none of them were squished. So whatever you did, keep taking the pictures the same way and posting them that way too!
Talk to you again soon! Love, Willow
Having some technical difficulty right now! Seems as though my comment that posted three times. Oh well, you can pretend like you had three different people commenting on your day!