Day 30 walking!

So we left Palas de Rei with grey threatening clouds and then it rained about an hour, but it was more of a drizzle and as we were under tree cover, it was not a major problem and only lasted hour or so. But it did make the air very humid. The way was very up and down today and in fact we covered six shallow river valleys mostly on forest paths but also on country roads too. They seem to farm Eucalyptus trees here and we passed rows and rows of these trees at differing stages of growth, some extremely tall.
The way also took us through a town called Melide which is renowned for its octopus pulpo Gallega, so we stopped for lunch there with a Costa Rican chap we had been chatting to as we walked along, and it was delicious!
A few photos including animals seen today plus a wren eating a grasshopper! It’s an agricultural region with lovely villages and old bridges and building.
It was nearly 27 Km to our destination of Albergue Los Caminantes at village called Ribadiso de Baixo, and we have very welcome private twin room 😊 in quite modern place with our own outside (stable!) door, almost like a motel.
Today I switched from sandals back to walking shoes. The walking sandals were fine on the flat and going uphill, but I think they were giving me blisters going downhill. The walking shoes have more support and were fine today, but it was a long way and my feet were tired by the time we got here, but now less than 50 Km to Santiago!! We should be there on Monday 😊Read more