Portomarin

Another interesting and long day, not that  every day hasn't been interesting. Before today's details though last night in our alberque Brian and I had a two bed room and the three ladies had the main dorm room with 15 other people. Well there were some monster snorers in there and no body in there got much sleep except for the snorers.

Luckily this is not a common occurrence most nights. 

Around 2am I went out to the one and only bathroom to go to the bathroom. I didn't turn on the bathroom light as there was enough light from the hallway. Well as I finished and a younger Korean lady came to the door as I was leaving. She gave a scream and ran back onto her dorm room. I guess I should have turned on the light in the bathroom.

Oh well it makes for a good story.

Our day started off with Maidere and Werner forgetting their hiking sticks. Werner was able to get back into the monistary alberque easily but Maidere had more difficulty since once you leave the building it's remains locked. After about ten minutes she was able get a hold of a kitchen worker to open the door.

So at 6:20 we headed out in a light drizzle. After 15 min of walking someone said " look up." The moon and stars were visible. Great news for all of is since all our shoes were still wet from 2 days of walking in the rain. As we walked we started noticing these large and colorful salamanders crossing the trail.

Nuts are everywhere. Walnuts, chestnuts and 

That's a pile of chestnut husks with many more on the ground

Not too far to walk

Driest sighting of Sarria

First sightings of Horreo's

100km to Santiago

Entering Portomarin

Ruins of the old town

We usually like to get coffee etc. early in our walk but today it was at least 11am before we found a bar. It was in Sarria. So it was coffee and lunch . In Sarria we said good bye to Kate who was to meet up with Liz  and her husband and another friend. They will be starting out a day behind us. We will see them again in Santiago on our second day there.

Marlene also stayed behind and later took a taxi to Portomarin. She is having some door problems and did not want to make them worse by the steep downhill into Portomarin. We met her there for dinner.

Today was the long walk of this camino and for that matter the last one: 37 km.

Werner has a pedometer and measured almost 54000 steps. That's a bunch.

It started to rain just after we arrived in town at around 7 pm.

That's it for today.

Paul