The 9 Best Beaches in Asturias for Families Asturian beaches are wild, and the tides are big. The same cove can be a wide stretch of sand in the morning and almost gone by lunchtime.…
Playa del Silencio, Asturias: The Viewpoint, the Path Down and Going with Kids Playa del Silencio is one of the most photographed beaches in Asturias: a curved cove of grey stones below high cliffs, near…
We spent five days in Asturias in July 2021 with Damian (8) and Marc (5), driving from Barcelona and basing ourselves on the western coast. It’s green and cool, even in July, with fishing villages…
The Best Beaches Near Santander for Families The beaches around Santander split into two kinds. There are the easy city beaches, and there are the wild coves of the Costa Quebrada, the “broken coast” just…
Santander with Kids: Things to Do, Beaches and Where to Stay Santander was our first proper city after a week of Asturian villages. We visited in July 2021 with Damian (8) and Marc (5), on…
San Sebastián de Garabandal: Our Honest Family Stay From 10 to 13 July 2021 we stayed in an Airbnb room in San Sebastián de Garabandal, a mountain village in Cantabria, with Damian (8) and Marc…
Llanes, Asturias with Kids: Beaches, the Paseo de San Pedro and the Painted Cubes Llanes was our last stop in Asturias. On 10 July 2021 we drove east from our base in Novellana with Damian…
Playa de Aguilar, Asturias: A Family Beach Guide After the cliffs and stone coves around Cudillero, Playa de Aguilar is the easy one: golden sand, lifeguards, a big car park and a short flat walk…
Gijón with Kids: San Lorenzo Beach, Cimavilla and Where to Stay Gijón is the biggest city on the Asturian coast. It has a long city beach, an old fishing quarter on a headland, and a…
Lagos de Saliencia with Kids: Our Somiedo Lakes Hike The one mountain day of our July 2021 Asturias trip. We drove inland from the coast to Somiedo Natural Park with Damian (8) and Marc (5)…
Things to Do in Tapia de Casariego with Kids Tapia de Casariego is the last Asturian harbour town before Galicia, and the far western end of our July 2021 road trip with Damian (8) and…
Lastres, Asturias with Kids: The Village, the Beach and the Best View Lastres is a fishing village built almost vertically on a hillside above its harbour, in the municipality of Colunga, about 40 km east…
Cudillero is the fishing village on every Asturias postcard: pastel houses stacked up a steep hillside around a small harbour, facing the Cantabrian Sea like the seats of an amphitheatre. We visited in July 2021…
Luarca, Asturias with Kids: The White Harbour Town Luarca is called the Villa Blanca, the white town: whitewashed houses climbing up from a small fishing harbour where the Río Negro meets the sea. It’s about…
Novellana, Asturias: Where We Stayed Novellana is a tiny rural parish in the municipality of Cudillero, on the western coast of Asturias. It has no harbour, no promenade and very few people. It was our…
We drove from Barcelona to Asturias from 6 to 10 July 2021 with our two boys, Damian (8) and Marc (5), then carried on east into Cantabria. It took about eight hours of driving to…