A very different day. We met up from our separate hotel rooms to have breakfast, as the kids weren’t sure about the prospects for food along the route today. They headed out about 0830. I stayed at the hotel until 1030, when I checked out and headed the small distance to the bus stop. I …
Finesterre – The End of the Earth
Or at least the end of this hike for me, but not the journey. We awoke in our albergue in Cee, being especially quiet as one other hiker in our section was still asleep. We noshed on whatever we had in our packs and ventured out. It was still a bit before sunrise as we …
Cee
Some good news I forgot to relay in last evening’s post - we learned that Pilgrim, the street dog which followed us for days, was adopted! We were chatting with Rick, from Sydney, who had been a day ahead of us, when the conversation came around to a dog that had followed him. After sharing …
A difficult day
But it didn’t start out quite so bad, except for the two old men in the bunks across from us that snored like the dickens. All night. Never mind that they had shipped CPAP machines but somehow took them off. Sigh. No one slept well. We all bonded over how dreadful they were. So we …
Negreira
We had a delicious dinner, which there is no shortage of in the city. It was packed with hikers and tourists with no end of restaurants and souvenir shops. We have no desire to carry anything extra, so we ignored the shops. We enjoyed having a room and bath to ourselves so slept in a …
Santiago!
We arrived! But there’s always a story… Last night turned out to be very enjoyable. The albergue was clean and cozy and charming. I’m always pleased when we have cubbies for more privacy. We were excited to get out of the pouring rain and get into something dry. There was a small food cart in …
Bucketfuls
As in it came down in bucketfuls today along with gusts of wind. So much for the brief respite with blue skies and sunshine. Today was nothing to write home about. Literally. We woke after a surprisingly good night’s sleep, despite fellow pilgrims starting to snore already by 2030! We all just stuck our earplugs …
Blue Skies!
Remarkably…but that comes later. After resting up in our bunks we wandered down to the common area from where we had been hearing someone playing the guitar, and rather well at that. Turned out to be Louis, from France. Who was actually staying at the albergue rather than just popping through, as before. We decided …
Less than 50 km
We had a nice dinner of falafel, sharing the dinner with a German woman, Stefi, who was staying at the same hostel. Best of all, the restaurant was just around the corner, so I could walk there in my flip flops. Didn’t want to get my nicely dried shoes wet again before morning. That came …
The Zombie Walk
The substitute hostel while basic was clean and quiet and had very welcoming hosts. We were so happy to be bedbug free! I slept so soundly that when I finally woke I saw no sign of Mandy or Karma. Apparently she had tried to gently wake me to no avail so they kindly let me …
