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| A school wishes "Buen Camino" to passing pilgrims |
Another early start but now other peregrinos were also getting up
early. We were on the road at 6:50am but stopped to make a birthday phone call
to our son in Finland.
We made good progress in the dark and it was daylight by the time
we stopped for breakfast at Cafe Esperon after 5.3km. The sun had just come
above the hill opposite when we emerged.
We made our way past the church and onto the first height of the
day at Cortina. Near the top there is a school where the children had put
greetings on the windows in the languages of many of those walking the Camino.
It felt good to see "Go n'éirí an bóthar leat" among the messages.
We were overtaken by a number of peregrinos along the way, some we
had met before and some for the first time.
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| A mobile sello on or credencials |
At one point an SUV came up behind us on a dirt track. We stepped
aside to let it pass and noticed that it was an emergency vehicle, the Spanish
equivalent of the Civil Defence. The driver stopped beside us, not because we
looked wrecked but to offer to stamp our credencials. We now have a stamp which
reads, 'Proteccion Civil - Concello de Valga'.
Had we spent last night in the Briallos albergue we would be
staying tonight in the new albergue near Pino. Instead we had decided to go on
to Padron. There is 3km of woodland walk through Pino which is probably the
nicest so far.
Curiously the centre of Padron is not well marked. Everything went
well until we reached the market and there we ran out of arrows. At the end of
the market there was no indication that we should continue along parallel to
the river so I turned right and then left to see if there were any arrows on
the town centre roads but could not find any. A local assured me that the
Camino was on up a busy road and while it got us to the albergue in the end, we
would have been better staying close to the river. Of course we once again
failed to refer to Brierley who would have kept us on the right track.
I have fallen in love with Pimientos de Padron and Brierley suggested
Restaurante Asador O’Pementeiro so we went looking for it. Locating it wasn’t
easy and when we did find it, it was closed. Newspapers strewn on the floor
inside the door made it look like a long term closure but tables and chairs
piled up neatly outside suggested it might be temporary.
I later enjoyed my Pimientos de Padron at another restaurant a
short distance away, and followed it with a very tasty paella. We were again
eating with Hari and Marika, with the three Germans nearby while two French
women that we had already met a few times were eating with a Japanese pilgrim.
It was there that we said goodbye to the Germans who had walked
into Santiago on a number of occasions but had never been to Finisterre and
were diverting to there in the morning.
We made good progress in the dark and it was daylight by the time
we stopped for breakfast at Cafe Esperon after 5.3km. The sun had just come
above the hill opposite when we emerged.
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