Blogs from Lugo, Galicia, Spain, Europe - page 4

Triacastela This was a nice, quiet village. The albergue I had chosen was new, and while the kitchen might not have been well equipped, allowed me to cook an omelette for myself. Chris and Jeremy had also cooked, and we shared dessert. It was a nice atmosphere. Englishmen I don´t know why the term Englishman brings with it so many connotations. Certainly I don´t think ´Australian´ or ´bloke´ has the same effect. Anyhow, there have been several English blokes around my age walking, and Jeremy and Chris are two of the nicer examples of the breed. I mentioned Chris in an earlier blog. He is walking to raise funds for a charity run by his church. As a free plug, because he is a nice bloke, the link to his fundraising site is http://www.justgiving.com/walkwithchris. I admire ... read more

We knew the was a risk of making errors when tracking a path backwards that is only marked in one direction. In fact we had already made one or two errors retracing our steps back down the Camino Frances to Melide. Unfortunately our first day go back up the Norte proved calamitous. We found our new way and for ten kilometres with gleaming new guide book, road signs and the ubiquitous shell symbol that marks the trail we made good progress. We only met one pilgrim who was coming the other way. He was on his bicycle and we had a warm exchange as it was a novel meeting on this path. On an equivalent stretch on our previous route we would have passed 50 to 100 pilgrims. We left Villouriz our second small village of ... read more