Today was our longest day on this Camino at 20km but we had breakfast included at the hotel to set us up for the day - I felt a little bit strange sitting in the posh dining room surrounded by people in smart clothes as I sat there in road-dusted clothes but the food was enough to forget this.
It was a buffet with meat, cheese, yogurt and toast with jams and that was the reason why we did not set off until after nine.
It was a buffet with meat, cheese, yogurt and toast with jams and that was the reason why we did not set off until after nine.
After about one kilometre Mum suddenly realised that she as not wearing or carrying her hat, I turned around ready to head back to the hotel to go and find it and Mum saw that her hat's Velcro had attached itself to my bag and the hat had hung on there as I had walked (including over the windy bridge).
Walking today we found that, in the middle of no where, had set up a hut with toilets and drinks and snacks machines and even their own sello so we stopped there for a break - this seems to be becoming more common on the Camino Portuguese with people setting up small unmanned rest stops as opposed to the many, many bars that are opening on the Frances perhaps because there are not yet enough walkers to pay for people to open bars. As I stamped my credential I spoke to a group of three from the Cheque Republic who did not seem to be enjoying their Camino saying that they were walking too far and his feet were hurting.
Today's forest paths seemed to be endless and I seemed to walk through them in a half dazed state some of the time simply putting one foot in front of the other, the view not changing as I went.
We arrived in Padron in the evening and had to walk through the debris from the market that had been on with shoe boxes piled up at the side of the street, plastic bags blowing around the street and even a small teddy bear that had been abandoned that we saved.
We got to the Church of Padron and went in to see the stone alter the boat carrying Saint James' body to Spain had been tied to.
The hotel was further out of town than we had thought and was near to the railway but the owner told us of a short cut to get back onto the Camino in the morning.
We arrived in Padron in the evening and had to walk through the debris from the market that had been on with shoe boxes piled up at the side of the street, plastic bags blowing around the street and even a small teddy bear that had been abandoned that we saved.
We got to the Church of Padron and went in to see the stone alter the boat carrying Saint James' body to Spain had been tied to.
The hotel was further out of town than we had thought and was near to the railway but the owner told us of a short cut to get back onto the Camino in the morning.
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