Negreira to Maroñas: +-21 km

'The Camino has provided.' Rain. The Camino provided LOTS of rain. It's relentless!

It poured most of the day. We had a few hours with less intense rain but it didn't stop. Scenery was still great, though.

I was expecting to end up with lots of blisters due to increased friction in wet socks, but was mostly fine. I have one small blister on my big toe but will work with it before we start walking tomorrow.

My cousin Piet's wife Jeanette introduced us to the joy of Compeed. It's patches and toe 'sleeves' made of silicone. Absolute game changer. I bought 2 sleeves for my little toes and no more problems! Dankie Jeanette 😍
Once we get to civilisation again, we will buy more.

Also thankful today for Gortex. Gortex shoes and Gortex rain suit. The shoes weren't that effective today but the rain suit kept me pretty dry. Our trail runners are now stuffed with newspaper and drying in front of the fire in the albergue restaurant. Talking about restaurant, we had a hearty 3 course 'menu of the day' dinner, including wine, for Eu 13.

We chatted with a Dutch lady at dinner. So far we don't socialise that much, as most peregrinos are Spanish speaking, but on our walks so far we have spoken with a couple of Aussies, Dutch, Scandanavian, quite a few Canadians, and one person from England. They are all very entertaining in their own way.

Mariette and I walk on our own sometimes for a bit of me-time and today being so rainy we each walked at a speed we felt safe at. There was lots of mud, many puddles and we had to balance ourselves with our walking poles not to slip and fall over!

It was a very challenging day and as I was plodding along, I was wondering if this moment was trying to teach me something. 'Keep on keeping on'? I don't have an answer yet.

Here's our Relive:
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