Spain – Asturias – Luarca (En)

We went to Luarca and we parked in the Sports Centre where we could park and walk to the city centre. Also, they told us that in the bar of the Sports Centre we could eat good and cheap and that the woman running the bar was very nice and helpful. So we went there!

Luarca is a peaceful fishing village, which was an important fishing port since the Middle Ages, and which preserves many vestiges of that glorious past: old neighbourhoods, the remains of a fortress, the Seafarers and Navigators Table where the powerful people of the town decided the main issues of the town, bridges with a legend as the bridge of the Kiss, and palaces and emblazoned houses. It is also, the birth town of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Severo Ochoa. The town is flanked by two chapels: the White one, to the east, and that of San Roque to the west, with the most beautiful cemetery in all Asturias with amazing views as it is next to the lighthouse.

After seeing the town we went back to the Sports Centre to have lunch in Maria Jose’s restaurant, a very nice woman who gave us a free tapa of tripe with chickpeas, chorizo and ham and gave us for main course a combined plate for only 8 euros. My one was pork fillet with homemade ham croquettes, tomato and chips and for Ben pork fillets, two fried eggs, Padron peppers and chips. By the way, I ate one Padron pepper and it was really spicy! Took me 10 minutes to recover!

Thank you very much to Maria Jose for all, we really recommend her bar as the food is good at a very good price and she helps the motorhomes all she can.

As it was only 5 pm we decided to go to our next town Tapia de Casariego as the parents-in-law of our friends Javi and Bea was there and told us there was a place for us in the motorhome municipal area of the town.