Asturias beaches

Our friends from church took us on a nice tour of beaches, all within an hour of each other.  Tony is the representative for a company that makes disposable containers.  Starbucks, for example, is one of his clients.  So he travels a lot and meets locals, who show him lesser-known spots.  One thing you take for granted in the US is good-quality paper products.  Tony´s company bought Solo, of red Solo cup fame, and hopes to ¨enter the consumer market,¨ here, which means there will be plastic cups in the grocery stores that don´t crumple in your hands.

We met our friends at the Ayre Hotel in the city of Oviedo.  It looks like the Starship Enterprise.

This beach had sand, though others did not.

It also had caves and this crack in the rocks that the boys shinnied right up.

This is the geyser beach.  The rocks were riddled with dozens of these scary deep holes.  When conditions are just right, the water enters from below and shoots up in a geyser.  We didn´t see any geysers, but we heard a lot of noise and saw some puffs of spray.

It was really windy, but apparently not enough for geysers.

This is a weird inland beach.  The ocean is ahead, past the rocks.

Panorama of geyser beach.  We then went to a fishing village for lunch.  My rule of eating out with locals is to eat what they eat.  In this case it was a bean and sausage stew followed by grilled baby squid.  I will take my squid fried in the future, thank you very much.