Day 22 - Santiago to Negreira

After a late night getting into bed after 1 am because of train delays, I am up, showered and leaving my albergue at 8:45 am to find breakfast before I start hiking. Today's hike will be 27 km and should take about 7 hours with breaks. I am excited to do a route I've never done before (I bussed it to Finisterre in 2023 while friends hiked it).

I didn't have to walk too far to find a nice cafe for breakfast. I met two American sisters in their late 50s or early 60s from Florida and we chatted a bit while we ate our English breakfasts. They had finished a shorter camino over 4 or 5 days that I had never heard before and were nursing sore knees and complained about one of the days when it just poured rain. Asked if they regretted their camino and they said they never regret a camino and I feel the same. They let me use their turbo charger to charge my phone and insisted I take some snacks from them before I left (an orange, energy bar, and lemon pound cake) and they even provided a ziplock bag for it.

They were going to take a tour by bus through Finisterre and Muxia and visit a waterfall which they had enjoyed the last time in Spain. They told me I'd be better off enjoying extra time in Finisterre by the water than hiking the extra day to Muxia which is just a small finishing village.

English breakfast orderes here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BM7avGZmBXFZWDTL8

I had been walking for about two hours when I came across a restaurant where I ordered coffee. I was going to leave right after given my heavy breakfast but they were roasting chickens so I ended up waiting almost an hour to order their lunch menu with three courses. I chose soup, grilled chicken, and flan for dessert and they let me swap out the fries for an ensalada (salad). All this with a drink and bread for 12.5 euros which was really reasonable! I was soo full at the end. I still need to walk 4.5 hours so will be arriving close to 6pm at the albergue. I will need to book it now if I want to make it there before it gets too dark!

Grilled chicken lunch ordered here:
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