After sumptuous feast night before with Maarten and Nelly, featuring multiple different plates of exotic Galicia delicacies, we allowed ourselves to sleep in until 07:00hrs. Good job too, given the torrential downpour commencing 05:00hrs. After a meagre but vital fibre-filled breakfast we departed 08:25hrs, only to find ourselves mingling with legions of new Peregrinos intent on obtaining their Compostella by completing minimum of a mere 100km on the Camino de Santiago.
I’m not sure how many laps round the Rosary Beads would be needed as penance for the blood-curdling cussing that took place barging our way past these part-timers. That said, with this Pilgrimage being one of only three in Christendom resulting in total absolution of all personal sin, then I presume this includes all sins committed along the way!!! (If so maybe we should commit some more!).
Anyway, the hike itself carried us through very scenic rural landscape, with the vast majority of hikers left in our wake by our one and only tea stop at 12km, with short 22km total hike to Portomarin finished by 13:15hrs.
Being at much lower elevation, the traverse was by far the most sweltering to date, necessitating muchos cervasas to rehydrate on arrival at the hotel where we again bumped in to Enriqo and his girlfriend Titiana, who we first met on route at Villamayor. Lunch was followed by our first Siesta in 5 days – a blissful respite.
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Can someone explain Nikki's walking sticks ? Is she cheating ?
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