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Published: September 28th 2017
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Today we left the albergue a bit late, at around 8am. I was out of bed by 6am, but took my time getting ready, having a cafe con leche since they were open. Eduardo and Silvia left with us. Silvia said her backpack felt a lot better, but she was taking it easy, and Raresh was off to the races. Somewhere along the way, Eduardo, who had been keeping up, had a problem of some sort, so we left them behind.
We passed through Biduedo, but paused for a photo at a high point, along with several other pilgrims. On our way through the tiny town of Fillobal, I had to stop for a photo of a ladder against a wall, with steep stairs above the ladder, leading to a house. I think there was a small driveway on one side, but it just seemed a strange thing. When we reached Triacastela, we stopped for breakfast at the O Peregrino. They had a homemade cake that looked delicious, so I ordered a slice to go with my tortilla. The slice was gigantic and very tasty. The tortilla was a lot thicker than normal, and also quite tasty. I couldn't
quite finish the tortilla, after wolfing down the cake. While we were there, a Correos van (Mail) pulled up and loaded several backpacks. Apparently they transport them too, like Jacotrans, but for 4 euros instead of 5.
Just as we were getting ready to go, Eduardo and Silvia showed up. We recommended the food and headed down the Camino. As we were leaving Triacastela, we had to make a choice of Camino, either left for 17 plus kilometers to Samos before Sarria, or right for 12 plus kilometers through San Xil before Sarria. We'd already decided we wanted to take the right route to stop in either Calvor or San Mamed for the night, so the shorter was a bonus. A ways down the trail, it started climbing rather steeply and we ended up doing a lot of steep ups and downs. We passed through the small towns of San Xil and Montan before entering Furela. Part way through what appeared to be another tiny town with no bars or cafes for a break, we found one those pilgrim rest areas, with drinks, fruit, and places to sit down, all as donations. They call it donativo. I told Raresh
I wanted to rest my feet, so we went in. Apparently Raresh got into some sort of discussion with the guy there and wandered off. After about 15 minutes without seeing him, I was ready to go, but couldn't find him. I called him loudly several times and even asked the other two workers there, but no sign of him. Even though I was sure I saw his backpack, I didn't want to wait longer, so I told the two there that JC was heading out. When after 30 minutes or so I still hadn't caught him, I decided he must have still been there. I figured I'd keep going until I found someplace to stop and have a coffee, and wait for him there. Unfortunately, there wasn't anyplace until I reached the first place we'd considered stopping, Calvor. I ordered a cafe con leche and waited. Sure enough, he finally showed up. After hearing from an older Canadian couple how good the next place was, in San Mamede del Camino, we continued on to there.
Even though it was after 3pm when we got there, we were the first to check in. Since there was no real town
nearby, hence no supermarket, we decided to pay for the pilgrim's dinner tonight and just have some wafers to stave off hunger from no lunch. This albergue is very nice, with good clean beds, a nice outside yard area, and a nice dining room and kitchen. Also, they have free Wi-Fi. We'll see how well it works when I try to upload the blog. An hour and a half after we got here, Eduardo and Silvia came through, but decided to continue on to Sarria.
Tomorrow we plan on stopping at Portomarin, about 26 kilometers ahead. That will put us about 90 kilometers from Santiago, which we plan on reaching in 3 1/2 days, doing 26, 25, 25 and 10 kilometers per day.
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