{"id":5029,"date":"2022-09-15T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2022-09-15T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:41:34","slug":"up-on-the-coast-at-laredo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/up-on-the-coast-at-laredo\/","title":{"rendered":"Up on the coast at Laredo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday 3rd September <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m writing this sitting on a rocky wall, dangling my boots over the beach just outside Rogaton Laredo campsite. I packed up at Leon this morning dismantling the one person town that I had built, my home from home, and was on the road by 11 heaving a sigh of relief as I rode off. There\u2019s always something of a release to get out on the road. I didn\u2019t surrender to the easy option of letting the gps take me all the way here on motorways but instead persuaded it to route me on some N roads, partly through the Picos to the coast. I\u2019m so pleased. The route took me to a road where I looked down on the clouds around the mountains. I thought that Spain had saved me the most spectacular view till my last full day of riding. Eventually I had to join the motorway just down from the coast with the occasional view of the sea so I made quicker progress but it was a tiring last third of the ride. Once in Laredo the place felt so unfamiliar that I began to wonder if I had chosen the right town after all. I followed two huge caravans with F plates all the way here. I was determined to get in here first (in case they took the last spaces or more likely that they took up ages of time of the person running the site). They parked outside and I rode straight in. The lady in the desk said they could squeeze me it. This place is heaving with caravans and families older than in Rio Ulla. Someone had to move their car outside to free up a small space of grass that fits both my small tent and my motorcycle. It\u2019s nice to need so little space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Camping<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Someone is riding along the beach on a horse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Beach<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The campsite web presence is all about sustainability but to me it seem just like every other busy site crammed full of vacationers. The location is good though. It would be a pretty sad site to have nothing special about it. The have a cafe bar here that serves food from 6.30 so I will try it to avoid unpacking all my cooking equipment and to eat more of the unhealthy food I seem to be eating for some at least of this trip. I\u2019m glad I had a good ride today as my sense of killing time for these last few days was starting to rise up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am opposite a family who are constantly talking and disputing now doing some repairs with a power tool. I need to chill or to go for a walk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of minutes walk, almost a turn around, and you are on this beach and all it\u2019s beauty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Beach<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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an antidote to the super crowded campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pizza and a beer in the site’s cafe was fine and seemed to cost 11 Euros.\u00a0No regrets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday 3rd September  I\u2019m writing this sitting on a rocky wall, dangling my boots over the beach just outside Rogaton Laredo campsite. I packed up at Leon this morning dismantling the one person town that I had built, my home from home, and was on the road by 11 heaving a sigh of relief as…Read more Up on the coast at Laredo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[102,132],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-travel","tag-motorcycle","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5030,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}