We once again failed to slip out of the albergue in stealth mode not naming names but by now you should know who clattered everything. Wasn’t that misty this morning and on paper the route looked fairly chill for the first bit after the initial hill leaving town and we made good progress looking for a coffee. Alas everywhere was closed in the first village so we stopped in a closed bar and ate breakfast. We weren’t sure if our moving round chairs woke the home owner but she soon came out and started opening her shop and asked us to leave so she could clean. No idea why she didn’t ask us in to buy stuff.
We made good progress after 5km our main challenge of the day started an 1000m climb over 4km. Just as we approached the mist was burned off by the sun making the challenge a lot worse. It soon heated up to 30 °c and my sweating was in full effect. We took breaks in the shade where we could. After a few rolls and food we conquered the mountain. The views were stunning.
On the way back down the hill we entered Galicia so the arrows are now different and they also countdown the finish as we got to back down from the mountain we found a bar for refreshments. However we now still had 12-13 km to do going up and down but completely in the open. So we were being cooked by the sun. Lots of suntan lotion later we slogged and sweated on until we found a posh restaurant that was a BBQ place but this wasn’t the time to eat so we had an aquarius and got back on the road.
We soon meandered until we could see Fonsagrada up on the hill way ahead of us. We knew it was up a hill but this was the steepest hill so far on the Camino. In the hot sun another slugfest up what has been named motherfucker hill. The day has wiped us out but staying in the most modern albergue it’s seriously nice and custom made. They even have heated boot drying racks. We have now less that 155km to go and on track to finish as planned on day 12 so we are halfway in days and km’s.
No comments:
Post a Comment