Oia to Baiona

The staff at Hotel Convento San Benito made me a massive picnic breakfast to go since we were leaving early.  it was enough food for all three of us. Yesterday's taxi driver arranged with one on his colleagues to drive us  back to where we ended yesterday's walk in Oia. He was great and gave us some history of Baiona, which is where we're stopping today, and he also alerted us to a detour on the trail. While we were walking, we found the detour and at the end of it, the signage was confusing but we found the right way to go. There was a pilgrim a bit in front of us that went the wrong way after the detour and was headed in the opposite direction. I whistled to her and we motioned to come in our direction.

We stopped for a coffee at Hotel Glasgow. We made another stop at a campground that had lots of cute cabins overlooking the ocean.  Most of the walk today was on sandy trails along the coastline or along the side of the highway but towards the end, we climbed over a mountain on an old Roman road that had large embedded rocks.  You could see the grooves in the rocks created from their carts.  This was a long way up one side of the mountain and then down the other side but it was really enjoyable.  There were about a dozen of us leap-frogging each other all day. Instead of the planned 18 miles, today's walk ended up being 13 miles since we extended our walk yesterday.  We're staying at the Parador tonight, which was part of the fortification of Baiona that was turned into a hotel.  It's really beautuful and is at the end of a point so the views are spectacular.  There are alot of historical sites in this area, including a replica of the Pinta (of the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María fame), which returned to Baiona after "discovering" the new world. The replica was made to scale and it's surprisingly small.

I'm giving my clothes a proper washing at a laundromat since handwashing only gets my clothes to a "it doesn't smell so bad" state. For dinner, we decided we hadn't walked enough so we walked a mile to a great seafood restaurant. Since we're not walking tomorrow, we didn't finish dinner until 10pm!Baca lagi