de Portos a Mato-Casanova
Book - 6.9 miles
Map My Walk - 8.84 miles, 4 hours
Fitbit- 19,218 steps, 8.15 miles
Today I am thankful for my children and their spouses.
Good deed- we ate dinner tonight with a brother/sister set of peregrinos. She is a lawyer on her annual five week paid and mandatory vacation. The brother is a geologist who used to work for a mining company, but is now between jobs. They are from Australia. Anyway, to the good deed. They didn't know when breakfast is tomorrow so as I left the dining room, I asked and then went back to tell them it is a buffet all morning up to 9:00 am. Pretty simple good deed, right?
We left in overcast weather and it stayed that way all day. And now it's raining. So I can also say I'm thankful it didn't rain while we were walking.
We passed a lot of buildings that are for sale...se vende. They are all pretty much ruins so I assume whoever buys them will scrape it snd start anew. Here is one place- who wants to flip it?
A couple classic pictures of the Camino. All of today looked like this
The town of Palas de Rei
We found this on the street. Warren and Whitney, you guys need to figure it out.
Music and chemistry.
I'm sorry about this, but there are no photos dealing with silage - I think we are out of milk cow country.
But there are still fountains
A random toilet out in the woods.
A perfect mushroom
Are you wondering about horreos? There are still tons of them- boring now. But I took a couple pictures any way. We got close to one and looked inside through the slats of wood. Saw nothing so either they are no longer functioning as graineries or the stockpile has been removed.
Lunch was sandwiches on a rock
We had reserved our albergue three days ago. When the woman called for me, she said I would have to call to get a ride because the albergue was 1.5K off the Camino. Great!! So I composed my short dialogue to use to ask to be picked up. And I kinda worried about it for three days. So we walk into the town and go into the first bar and I begin. She interrupted me and in English says to go to the bar next door as the owner is also the owner of our albergue. Who knew my Spanish was so good!!
Our ride came in five minutes and we were off driving on windy roads through the woods. We have NO idea where we are, so I hope there is no disaster tonight
It is a beautiful albergue. Surely an old farm house and barn flipped into an albergue
View from our window.
And dinner. Russian salad (no beets included so I question the adjective Russian). And lentil soup.
I think a miracle may be happening on the Camino right now as I'm on my phone. Yesterday's post wouldn't publish. The I tried to copy it. Then I couldn't find it anywhere! Truly sad. I thought you'd never get the final edition about silage. BUT, it is somehow hooked on to today's post. I'm going to press save and then publish. Say a silent prayer-now (see #29).
Sorry the pictures for #29 were giving you grief. I'll just have to see them when you get home. I loved the pictures for today. And, I'm thankful for you too!
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