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Caldas de Reis

We walked 23km today and are now only 43km from Santiago!



This route involves a lot more road walking than the Camino Frances (although a lot in the last 100km are mainly quiet country roads but all of that tarmac gets to your feet!).



There are though some lovely parts walking through forests with no-one else in sight, just the sound of water running down small waterfalls from last night's rain to be heard and then we emerged from the trees and into a bit of rain to behold a beautiful rainbow gracing the sky.



If anything (except for in the cities which always seem to be a problem) the Camino Portuguese is better signed than the Frances - the Galician way markers aren't every 500m but the arrows seem to be more abundant and painted with more care and at crossroads there are nearly always yellow crosses to tell you, 'Not this way!'



There are fewer bars and albergues but that hasn't been a problem so far.



Tomorrow it's Padron with it's famous peppers but for now we're off to find the hot springs and hopefully bathe our feet and see if we can find the only Church dedicated to Saint Thomas a Becket in Galicia!



You can no longer put your feet in the water of the spring so instead we took an empty bottle, filled it up and poured this water on our feet

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