Green and Hilly

The forecast reversed itself again today, it was supposed to be dry but we had on and off light showers for the first 7 miles. Though somehow it didn't seem to matter as we walked through verdant rolling countryside, some quite steeply rolling, all morning. We'd even got partly accustomed to the very pungent farmyard aromas.

We'd been told by numerous people who had done it before that beyond Sarria it was going to get very busy. As the minimum distance you have to do is a 100km to get your Compostela (pilgrimage certificate). So maybe it was that and the beautiful countryside and the shorter distance and how so quiet it was at times that I found myself more than ever trying to take it all in and savour every moment.

We were able to get into our room as soon as we arrived and I was showered and on the balcony, over looking an attractive, but rather noisy weir on the river Sarria by 12:30.

We then headed out for lunch and bumped into 6 people we had met over the course of the trip, it can sometimes be a very small world on the Camino. We had lunch with 4 of them and were later joined by a fifth and carried on with a couple of drinks. As we left I wondered what we were going to do for the rest of the afternoon only to realise it was now 18:00, I still can't understand how the time flew by like that.

Triacastela to Sarria
Distance: 11.05 miles
Time: 4hrs 9 mins
Speed: 2.7 milesRead more