Sarria to Ferreiros
Book 8.2 miles
Map My Walk- 10.8 miles, 5 1/2 hours
Fitbit - 25,064 steps, 10.68 miles
Sarria is a major starting point for those wishing to do the minimum 100K to receive a Compostela. Yep, I hear iyout question all the way across the Atlantic, "What is a Compostela????" A Compostela is an official document that states that the pilgrim so named on the document has walked the last 100k into Santiago. How do you prove that? You have your Camino Creditenial which, as you have walked along, you have filled up with rubber stamps marks that uniquely identify a location
When you get to Santiago, you go to the Pilgrim Office and present your Creditential for verification and they givre you the document.
Now if you have declared a spiritual or religious reason for undertaking your pilgrimage, you get a fancy document. ---I don't know how fancy that is. If you don't declare a spiritual reason - like you wanted to exercise for six weeks or your trip was a grad present from your granny, you get a plain document.
I am declaring I focused on being thankful (maybe I'll say I practiced an attitude of gratitude). Don't know what dad will declare. Oh yes, we want our Compostelas!! Otherwise it would be like doing all the requirements for HS graduation but never turning in your fees for lost library books.
So, anyway, we started walking again in Sarria. Here's a Dad in front of our hostel and the cops walking toward him
The arrows took us through the old part of town (our hostel was in just regular business downtown. Here are pictures as we left town
Gas meters on an apartment complex
Mural on wall
Dilapidated walls and doors
Fancy touristy street - like in Assisi Italy.
Nice city mosaic with town in the mist
I have no idea what these concrete things are. Maybe for kids to hide inside
This was a nice walking day - it was different than our previous days. Lots of trees along side the trail
And lots of active farming and milk cows
She went for a different pose.
Great rock walls with sedums growing on them - they are for Beverly
Between our start and stop for the day there was only one place to eat.
I'm guessing it is a farmer's home and the daughter and her friend were supposed to be selling food. They were incredibly indifferent and only had cold pizza and drinks. At least it was homemade and surprisingly tasty
What made the place blog worthy is the outhouse which was "only for use of customers" in three languages
Whoop-tee-do! Until you go inside
The path led through farms which were actively being lived in. We saw men spraying weeds, women picking up big stones and restacking them on the stone walls.
Move over- tractor is coming
Hay had been cut and was being picked up by big equipment and blown into trailers
These little villages had something we'd never seen before!
What are they?? I suggested they were placed to keep the ashes of your kindred dead; Dad thought they were funerary monuments because some had ornate crosses on the roof wave. Maybe a smoke house?? Jenny N probably knows cuz they are also found in southern England. Well, thanks to google in Spain we know. They are horreos (pronounced like the cookies, Oreos) and used to store grain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Horreo
We saw an interesting crop. It's probably Brussels sprouts which have been allowed to grow very tall. Probably the leaves are harvested to be eaten like kale or cabbage leaves
Finally got to our albergue. Looks like your normal stone building, right?
But it isn't. Across the street is a new modern looking building
Where our room is. And Dad's under the covers. An artistic chandelier graces the ceiling. Warren made something like this once out of paper cups.
View out our window. Yes, we're on a farm.
Dinner time. Classic mixed salad, Galacian soup (cabbage, potatoes, occasional bean), veal steak and patatas, flan for dessert.
I know you're waiting for these
Tomorrow we walk again. I like walking - it's just like backpacking.
Very pretty scenery on this leg of the trip.
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