Day 11 Tui to O Perriño

This morning we started early to try to beat the rain. It was still dark when we left. Many other pilgrims had the same idea. It was very strange walking in the dark. As the sun came up, we could see we were walking through a beautiful forest of oak trees and ferns. At one point, as we neared the place where San Telmo, the patron saint of Tui, suddenly got sick on his way to Santiago (in 1251), dying a short time later, we heard bagpipes playing. Sure enough, around the bend was a random bagpipe player. We all thought he could have had a better repertoire and a kilt.

We didn’t quite outrun the rain, so on with our most fashionable rain gear. Greg said I looked like a little Jedi, so we used our hiking poles to have a short light saber battle. It wasn’t raining very hard, but it was getting us quite wet. More rain predicted tomorrow. We did ten miles today.Read more