Since leaving Ferreiros on Monday morning, every day has brought new experiences. Misty mornings have cleared to bring warm sunny afternoons.
How lucky we are!
We
continue to enjoy beautiful countryside - very green with hints of
Autumn on the hedgerows and trees, fallen apples and paths strewn with
chestnuts. The camino is now more gentle compared with our first few
days, but we still have had some steep and rough ground to cover.
On
Tuesday we stayed at the town of Portomarin, which has an interesting
history. In the 1960's the river Mino was dammed to create the Belesar
reservoir. The old village is now under water. The most important
historical monuments were moved brick by brick up to the new town.
The
following day we continued to walk through more stone villages - their
grain stores on stilts, the farmers working their land. On this stretch
of the trail we reached our half way mark!
On
Wednesday we had another opportunity to leave the camino to spend a
night in the countryside near Ventas ...a quiet little farmers hamlet.
Unlike our last trip off the trail, we had a very pleasant drive to our
destination
- Pazo de Ludeiro..
Every
night night so far we have enjoyed comfortable accommodation and good
food. Compleja La Cabana - set right on the Camino path, just before the
descent into Palais de Rei, surrounded by pine and chestnut trees, was
our next stop. This time we were in a log cabin!
(with a window that just fell out ... more about that another day.)
(with a window that just fell out ... more about that another day.)
