Orio to Zumaia, 09/25/24 16km

A beautiful day today, was served a rather full GF breakfast at the hotel and set off in a relaxed manner around 9:00am. When I set this trip up, the initial plan had too many long legs and I am very glad that I asked from them to be shortened. Yesterday was about 16km and with all the hills involved I didn’t mind having a little downtime in the afternoon. Today, it seemed that every time I turned a corner there was another hill to climb. Right from the hotel there was an immediate climb, the through the town of Orio, then another climb and so on. Today the timing worked that I was walking near the town of Getaria around 1:00pm, and after checking with a few locals just a slight diversion put me in the middle of a number of restaurants. Both locals I talked to recommended Politena and it did not disappoint. Appetizer tray and some cod with a desert somewhat like a coffee mouse tiramisu cross. Of course I was immediately hit by a very steep hill leaving town and after few others, dragged into the lobby of tonight’s hotel around 4:00pm. Some spectacular views today, but the wind came up fairly strongly, so I suspect some weather is in the future. 29,000 steps. 75 flights.

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