Day 19 June 7 Vilei to Portomarin

Hotel tonight Pension Posada del Camino

Miles walked 16.4 includes around village after arrival.

We left Casa Barbadelo in Vilei at about 7:30 after breakfast.

 

Fields of green again today. So fantastic!

Met Teoman again today after 2 days. Told him the story of Jack Daniels! He liked it. He walked with us all the way to Portomarin.

With Teoman and a group of Korean students, we passed the 100 kilometers to Santiago marker. We passed the original marker first then the newer one which is now slightly beyond due to roads or path changes. This picture is standing at the new marker.

 

 

Met Joe and Sheila after at least a week. We thought they were way ahead of us because they had taken a bus to Leon a couple days before we got there.

Met Dava and Jorge again after 2 days. Had a Sangria with them in the Main plaza of Portomarin.

Met Jacqueline and Sylvianne after 2 days. Finally got to take a photo of them. They are from Vannes, France.

Beautiful hilly (and somewhat smelly) walk with farms, cows, sheep, rain, wind and sun off and on all day. Everything is so green. We hear birds all day long. It is so peaceful, even with all the people walking.

 

San Juan, Templar church in plaza mayor was moved to its current placement in 1963, when the reservoir was built. The church was right in the middle of the valley to be flooded. You can still see the numbers on the reconstructed stones from when they dissembled it stone by stone. Muy incredible! We were able to visit the inside too.

Santiago (St James) pointing us to the Way.

Not very tired today. Another very long day tomorrow; 16 miles. We've been arriving every day about 2 or so which gives us time to rest and explore the villages. It's quite nice.

We bought all of our food for tomorrow to save some euro and to speed up the days walk. Stopping along the way takes so much time. All of the pilgrims jam into every bar and restaurant so getting waited on is difficult at times, although the stops are great on the feet.

Afternoon rain expected tomorrow.

Buen Camino

 

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