Possible new option after Santander

[Isca-camigo]

I was looking at the Blendios Camino and came across news that two municipal bodies, Suances and Miengo are going to invest in a jetty and reinstate a boat between the two areas, if this happens it probably means close to 10km of industrial walking will be missed out after Santander. The article claims that this used to the historical passage, also Suances is the starting point of the Camino de los Blendios, https://www.cantabria.es/web/comunicados/detalle/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_DETALLE/16413/6909975

 

[Dave]

That would be pretty neat! It'd be especially nice if they'd pair that with the addition of a pedestrian crossing to the train bridge from Boo...

 

[Antonius Vaessen]

If you want to avoid this industrial stretch you could also follow the coastline. That would add about 25 kilometers to your Camino, but it is a very beautiful.

 

[peregrina2000]

If you want to avoid this industrial stretch you could also follow the coastline. That would add about 25 kilometers to your Camino, but it is a very beautiful.

That’s what I thought at first, too, @Antonius Vaessen. But I looked at a map and saw that the crossing they are talking about is after Boo and the train. The coastal route I followed from Santander last year, as recommended by @Dave, was gorgeous and worth every step, but this little boat ride would not go anywhere near it, if I am reading the maps right. Because I ended up in Boo for that night. And that little boat ride would be the next day.

What this boat would do, I think, is eliminate all that walking by the huge industrial Solvay plant and along the pipeline into Barreda, so that would be a very welcome change. And I don’t think many established camino businesses would be ruined by the re-routing that would come from adding the boat.

But as @Dave says, it would be nice of them to fix the crossing where the train tracks are as well. (Not to go too off-thread, but HEY, Dave, good to see you here again!)

 

[Tia Valeria]

Looking on google maps this looks as though it will go from Miengo to Cortiguera and Ongayu, at the narrowest crossing in that area. Just right for the albergue at Carboredondo. It is Suances municipality rather than town. We like the area round Suances, one of or 'best kept secrets' .

 

[Isca-camigo]

"That would be pretty neat! It'd be especially nice if they'd pair that with the addition of a pedestrian crossing to the train bridge from Boo..."

I'm sure I read somewhere that there used to be a boat crossing where the train bridge is now, we could be talking hundreds of years ago but that would be a good addition now

 

[Dave]

Here's the best view I've found at what this new approach might look like:
https://es.wikiloc.com/rutas-sender...de-santiago-mogro-santillana-del-mar-13358683
https://caminorealcostacantabria.co...storico-de-santiago-mogro-santillana-del-mar/