We woke up to a wet world after a good night's sleep. We packed our packs and went downstairs for a breakfast of toast and coffee. We were hard pressed to get started as it had begun raining. We donned all our rain gear and started out. It was to be a relatively short hike, …
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We had a bit of a "lie in" sleeping till almost 8 before stirring. Luckily the meditation "ohm-ing" didn't begin until 9 just as we were leaving. Can't say I was sorry to see the end of that spot. After wandering around town a bit looking for an ATM, we stopped for coffee, running …
After a marvelously restful night's sleep, with probably the best pillow of the trip, we slowly got up and got moving. About when we planned to depart we finally had a sighting of our Irish friends. They stayed out enjoying the company of a previous year's hiking companion. Looking a bit worse for wear we …
We had a light supper at the albergue where we were staying as that was it for the town. It was directly across from the church, where the bell rang about 1730 for evening mass. The older local women all walked over, all dressed about the same, while the men stayed at the bar, solving …
After a night serenaded by a chorus of snorers and crinkling plastic bed covers each time someone turned over, we got up early. The hope was to get started a bit sooner than we had been to miss out on some of the afternoon heat. We ate a light breakfast from what we had purchased …
After our rest and celebratory time in Santiago we bid farewell to two of our hiking tribe members - we had gathered a wonderful Camino family: Chris, the grandad, me, the grandmom, Tony, the dad, Stephanie, the mom, Mandy, the big sister and Simon, the young son. Chris we sent on his way this morning …
After a good night's sleep we got ourselves up and ready to go on the last day of the route. We tend to sleep later than most hikers, say 0700, which is nice for us as most others will have gotten up and left, leaving us to pack up with more space and not having …
After our initial round of drinks at the bar closest to our albergue we headed out to find a market for food for the next day and for dinner. Simon had a relative recommend a Pulperia for the local specialty, pulpo. While it tasted fine, for me, having it once was enough. I did love …
After a round of drinks outside on the albergue terrace we went inside for a communal dinner of seafood paella and wine. Delicious. We still didn't feel like calling it quits so we went to the cantina next door for a few pitchers of sangria. Our usual group of six that have been together for …
After cleaning ourselves up we strolled outside to a bar for drinks. Stephanie and I asked for gin and tonics and were amazed when the waitress brought all the glasses out and the entire bottle of gin! They are certainly generous in their portions as she filled half the glass and there was only one …
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