Spent the night in Oviedo, where you can find another version of the statue from Rio.
I was impressed by the use of viaducts in Portugal. Along the northern coast is Spain, they are now just one after another.
The upside is that the trip is not a slow, winding, traffic jam of impatience and sick bags.
You are just sailing above the valleys and vistas, stepping from one tree-topped hill to the next like the god Mercury in his very ambiguous sandals. Very comfortable. Very fast.
The downside is that you are sailing above the valleys and vistas, and not experiencing and embracing them. You are nnot navigating each little village. You need to make a conscious effort to turn off the highway to visit a particular town or village.
One village we did make a conscious decision to visit is Luarca.
The cemetery where I took the first two photos is right on the end of that rock that sticks out into the Atlantic.
Amazing location.
You’d have to wonder what kind of tourism and drive-by commerce they’re missing out on.
So are there any areas in New Zealand that would benefit from this kind of engineering? Not sure.
Are there any little villages that would die if you did bypass them with highways? Probably.
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