Sadly today we had to leave our home away from home at the Parador and continue the journey westward to Santiago de Compostela. Today is a long day we need to cover 40km, but don’t worry did not have to walk it all. It was decided that we would take the bus for the first 10km through the suburbs and than walk to next 30km. As the bus was not till 8.30am we were able to fit in a lovely breakfast before leaving.
No sunrise this morning, well there was a sunrise I just didn’t see it. It was a quick walk to the bus stop and than I had it hide when ever a pilgrim walked past- oh the shame of using transport, but we were not the only ones.
The day started out fairly mild with cloud cover and a little breeze. I was feeling good after 2 days of relaxing, no sore feet or aching joints. How soon we forget that it doesn’t take long for the feet to react to constant pounding. The countryside is lovely, with wide open fields and lots of farming land.
As always Colin and Wolfgang are up the front with Dann and I bring up the rear. Dann came across a couple of girls he had met his first day. One of them, Morgan, has her camera stuff with her, she is carrying 27kg of stuff. The camera was amazing.
She wanted to do a portrait of Dann.
Rain set in not long after this, my first lot for the trip. Tested out wet weather gear, would of preferred not too. Continued to rain on and off for the rest of the day.
Seems some little towns are going modern with there bell towers, while others have the old ones falling down.
Oh how things have changed, tonight we are in a hotel at a truck stop, that being said the showers were hot and beds soft.
Tomorrow we push on only 285km to go……
Carla's away... 