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Portomarin

We set off a little bit later today as the nar did not open until 8 and we needed to drop off mums bag there for the carrier to pick up.





Today has mainly been a day of mists as when we set off the tops of tje hills around us looked like little islands floating also ng in seas of mists.

Later the mist set in either further so that we could only see the path in front of us and little else! You could even see the fine droplets of water floating along.

Wr stoppef at a lovely little bar and no sooner were we sat down than becky heard a meow and a cat on jumped on her knee puring and messing up Becky's trousers with her muddy paw prints! And it had taken us agee to get Becky's trousers dry yesterday after we'd washed them!

Today we have walked only about ten km to Portomarin but mum has enjoyed the walk and even called it 'easy' on a card to her sister, well there are a few difficult patches coming up so we'll see what she thinks after she's walked them!!


These stairs did phase mum a bit though!

The current town of Portomarin was built in 1960 after the river mino was dammed to create a reservoir. The most historic of the buildings were moved from the old town to the new and when the reservoir is low some of the old town can be seen.


We're staying in the private albergue ulyria! tonight which is just off the square and has a well equpied kitchen for tonight's meal.

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