28-May-2016 Santillana del Mar to Comillas

Woke around 7.00am and tested the legs as the toilet was beckoning, the ibuprofen we took last night must have done the job as a. I had a good nights sleep and b. My legs aren't too sore. Lynette had had a reasonable night sleep after she closed the shutter as a light was shining in her eyes before that.
We packed up, dressed in our slightly wet clothes, hung our wet socks on the outside of the packs and walked towards the camp-ground which is the way out of town.
We only made it 300 m before we found a place open for breakfast, stopped for coffee and croissants.
Headed off for the second time up hill and out of town. One kilometer later we had our first bit of uncertainty about the road to Arroyo, we thought we should be on a track but we were on a main road, which turned out to be correct, just down the main road was the single car track, still paved but no traffic. We actually felt good walking wise for about 10 km and the scenery was much better than yesterday, as it was hillier than yesterday eventually the blisters started playing up, then the knees again. We stopped against a wall to pop the same blisters we popped last night, Lynette changed into her Keens, with socks, quiet the look that is. We continued into Cobreces which was situated at a perfect distance for us to make a good long lunch break to recover. It is 12.8km in with a little over 10km to go. The town itself is small but has an impressive church.
We had come off the track a little to eat and while sitting there had seen 4 walkers go past so after lunch we blindly followed them, at the next Junction was a shell marker and arrow, once again we blindly followed, about 500 meters down the road we started to question if it was the correct way, it was not. So back up the road we went, but instead of going all the way back to the track we took a short-cut down the main road. A short cut but very hard on the feet. We joined the Camino del Norte again in Venta de Tramalon. About a kilometer later we stopped for a beer in La Iglesia the sky to the West was looking ominous, ten minutes later in Pando we got to try out our Ponchos, as there was heavy rain, lightning and thunder. The lightning was close but not too close to worry about and the rain had made for a pleasant walking temperature so we kept going all the way to the end in Comillas. Once there we took a break to fish out information on where the Albergue was, we found it OK but once again we were too late. We had arrived at 4.15pm, the first guest in the Albergue had arrived at 12.30 and the 20th (full) at 2.30pm. We asked for recommendation and the lady at reception showed us a house with rooms to let and rang ahead to ask if there was room, there was for €15.00 each again - bargain we took it up.