Asturias route07

• Total distance: ? km
• Official biketour Asturian number: +34

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Sleeping places

June 23 (Saturday) GIJON (idea)

• critical mass in Gijón, the largest city in Asturias

June 24 (Sunday) CARAVIA beach (idea)

• ROUTE: Gijón (??) - Caravia (the beach is somewhere in between Villaviciosa and Ribadesella), if cycling from Gijón - some 50km
• On the 24th, it's a very magical night and some people are going to celebrate the solstice on a beach called CARAVIA. There will be a camping space, concerts, fire,... Biketour is welcome to stay there that night. That beach is somewhere in between Villaviciosa and Ribadesella (on the eastern coast of Asturias).
• SLEEP: Caravia beach

Contact person: Fran (+34) 620.61.78.74

June 25 (Monday) LA CASTAŃAL (confirmed)

• ROUTE: Caravia - La Castańal, around 50km
• The village close to Nava called La Castańal. Hosts want to propose a workshop, perhaps on "world dancing", some other artistic stuff is possible. It is fine to cycle from Caravia to La Castańal.
• SLEEP: La Castańal village/community

Contact person from La Castańal: Fran (+34) 620.61.78.74

June 26 (Tuesday) ESCANDA, south of Pola de Lena area (confirmed)

• ROUTE: La Castańal - Escanda, 60km
• Well known community in Asturias, an associacion made up of people from various countries.
• SLEEP: Escanda community

http://www.escanda.org/english/faqescandaeng.php

Contact person from Escanda: Elena

June 27 (Wednesday) ESCANDA (confirmed)

• rest day in Escanda
• SLEEP: Escanda community

June 28 (Thursday) IXUXU, Soto de Rey, Oviedo area (confirmed)

• ROUTE: Escanda - Ixuxu, 30km
• Nice eco-farm in Asturias. There's space to camp. It's a very beautiful place with chestnut woods, horses, sheep,... There is a few people living there, and some more people living outside help out in the farm, or building the straw-bell house and yurts, ...
• SLEEP: Ixuxu farm

Contact person from Ixuxu: Alicia, tel: (+34) 985.796.893

June 29 (Thursday) LIBELULA, Avilés (north) (confirmed)

• ROUTE: Ixuxu - Libelula

(note: people here have been strongly recommending that you don't go south-west from Pola cos it's very steep, it's right through very high mountains. So, you might have to go back to the coastline to go towards Galicia.)

• If u choose to come to Libelula, you can camp on a field next to Avilés (+/- 40 km from Oviedo). Susana is living close to there and she cultivates vegetables for the other people in her agroecological cooperative (called Libélula). She's extremely sweet and she can tell u a lot about the surroundings or the social networks in asturias.
• SLEEP: agroecological cooperative Libelula

Contact person from Libelula: Susana (+34) 985.56.37.86

June 30 (Friday) NAVIA (north-west of town Navia)

• ROUTE: Libelula - Navia (Navia is some 70km from Avilés)
• It's a zone where there's quite a nice bunch of people from very different backgrounds and ages. The couple who would host you on their field are

teachers and live in a very beatiful place above the sea. This group of people hosted the annual asturian ecologist "gathering" to protest against the massive plans of exporting water til the coastline for huge touristic plans (buildings and golf courses....). Unfortunately they don't really feel like doing another protest end of june, but I guess somebody from biketour could probably give them some ideas or encourage them...

• SLEEP: the field at Navia

Contact person from Navia: Yolanda & Manolo, tel: (+34) 985.47.41.40