Ahead of the Crowd

It was raining as we set out this morning, which did have one benefit. It seems that the new recruits weren't too keen on walking in the rain and the dark which meant no procession this morning, we were ahead of the crowd, which did feel nice.

The signage has been really good on the whole route but is at a different level since we entered Galicia. There are concrete directional and distance markers, down to the last metre, at every turn. Every path and trail has had money spent on it. With a large influx of people starting in Sarria and now with other routes joining this route or going straight into Santiago they have invested a good sum of the revenue that that brings in on maintaining the route. The one thing it doesn't have much of that the rest of the route did are the murals.

We walked a good few miles towards the end of the today's walk with an American couple we keep bumping into. We must have been the first people to check in today as we were offered the choice of rooms, so took the one double bed the place had. The vast majority of beds have been singles, the only problem we later found with the double was it had one long pillow we had to share. I'm thinking there's going to be a lot of both of us pulling backwards and forwards on this all night.. Perhaps we'll stick to single beds in hostels in the future.

Palas de Rei to Ribadiso
Distance: 16.58
Time: 6 hrs 4mins
Speed: 2.9 mphRead more