Moving along

It was great weather for a hike today. Sunny but a bit cooler. And the terrain was mostly flat and much of the day was in woods. It's funny how by this time in my Camino, I consider 10 miles an easy days walk.
Anyway, probably the most eventful thing that happened was running into a bagpipes player playing in the woods. We were resting by a stone bridge over a lovely stream when we heard the music. It was hard to tell if it was live or someone playing a recording. But a bit further down the dirt path we turned a bend and came across a man playing the bagpipes. It was kind of haunting filling the forest with the sound where you normally only hear birds. We stopped to listen for a while and as we moved on we saw he had set up a stand where we could get a stamp in our credentials. Of course, everyone wanted one.
We reached O Porrino in great time and found our apartment for the night was just steps off the Camino (which is really nice at the end of a long day or early in the morning when you can just step on the path). It happened to be May Day so it seemed most of the town was out celebrating. We did not realize this, so we could not get into a place to eat until 10pm. That made for quite a late night, but it was fun being out and about all evening with the locals.Read more