Romeán to Lugo

The place we stayed last night with Lucas the duckling was the rectoral de Romean - so not just ‘somewhere near Gondar.
We left this delightful place at about 7.30 having done a smidgeon of yoga in the yoga room with Alex and Barbara. All days on the camino would benefit by starting with this routine.
When I woke up I stuck my phone out of the window with the Merlin app running and heard a golden oriole which was very exciting - sadly I didn’t actually see it.
On leaving we gradually worked our way back to the route along mainly quiet roads and then on paths through more forests.
The route to Lugo was surprisingly rural until less than a kilometre from the city’s Roman walls but then there was a steepish down to the edge of the city followed by a steep up to the walls and through into the city.
Lugo is beautiful. Almost car free within the walls and a mixture of narrow winding streets and open plazas with cafes, restaurants and green space. The city is centred on its cathedral which has been added to over the centuries but which originally dates from Roman times. Underneath the current structures are 8 metres of the remains of its previous incarnations.
We met up with our camino family as we walked into the centre in the Plaza
Mayor, where we joined them for breakfast. This was the last day of all being together before we all go our separate ways -
Most heading on towards Santiago tomorrow - a couple on the Camino Verde to join up with the Norte and head in that way.
After eating delicious avocado toast we went off to find our apartment.
It’s a spacious top floor flat but super hot on this very warm day. As I’m writing now it has cooled down a bit with all the windows open but after buying some lunch at the supermarket, including a huge watermelon, we eventually had to get out to cool down. A visit to the cathedral was a great help, and by the time we came out the air had cooled a little.
An ice cream bridged the gap between lunch and supper and then again we bumped into our friends ata tiny tapas place.
We decided to eat at an Italian restaurant recommended by our air bnb host. Very very good and close to our flat as it turned out, tho nowhere is far in this city.
A bit of a sad end to the day as we won’t see any of our friends again, at least not on this trip. And the route will be very different from now on - much busier and more commercial.Leia mais