Camino 2024

After the long hot walk to Arcade the day before, I decided to take a train to Ponteverde where I would meet Mary and Helen for lunch. Mary would continue walking, and Helen and I would “hop on a bus” for the 16 minute ride to Combarro! Sounds easy peasy right!!!?
Apparently, not so much for 2 who don’t speak much in the way of Spanish !!
Firstly, find the correct bus depot to catch the bus.
Secondly, get on the right bus! Which is not, apparently, the bus to “Cambados” which I might add is a lovely 1 and 1/2 hour ride on a very comfortable bus.
And once off the bus to realize you’re not in Combarro but Cambados, so hop back onto the bus for the lovely ride back to Ponteverde to catch the correct bus.
Bus driver drops us off at the right stop to wait for said correct bus.
Waiting……waiting…..waiting…. In the hot sun and checking with every bus that comes along to see if they are going to Combarro (which we now know how to pronounce correctly) and talk to a young gentleman who ensures us we are at the right stop and the bus will come, so we are secure in the feeling that we are going to be on the right bus, which we get on for the 16 min bus ride to our destination Combarro!!!
…….Or maybe we just stay on the bus and look at google maps to see our little dot moving past Combarro as it gets further away from us…..
Okay! So once we land in “Sanxenxo” as it’s the last stop! (Apparently you have to ring a bell to get off a bus!! Who knew!!)
Thankfully the bus stop had a bano and a place to get a drink, as we waited there for an hour or so for a bus that was supposedly coming in 5 min.
Finally, an older couple comes along and we ask, using google translate, where they are going. Ponteverde, which is the correct bus, so Yayyyy!!!
And we wait….. asking again of any buses coming in are going to Combarro, but of course none.
Until our bus finally arrives and has the same bus driver that had dropped us off an hour or so ago. He was, to say the least, very surprised to see we were still there and made us sit in the front row so he could kick us off in Combarro!!
Where, at our hostel, Mary had wine and cheese and peppers and tomatoes for dinner!!!
It was Albergue Hostel Neuesta Senora del Camino and was quite lovely after our day of bus depots 😊Read more