Triacastela

Good morning/ for us goodnight😃💖
First a commentary: There are a few things you can count on a Camino, in my opinion- being hungry, thirsty and wonderfully tired.
What we haven’t been able to count on this Camino is toilet seats, ( toilets, yes. seats, no.) paper towels and toilet paper. You usually get 2 out of three. Today we had all 3 at most of our breaks/stops. 🎉
Also, with electricity very expensive lights in bathrooms are on a timer. After a few minutes they go off. One needs to wave a hand to activate the motion sensor. The first stop, today, the lights lasted about 10 seconds. I was waving my hand as if swatting a fly to activate the sensor every few seconds. This can be really difficult while laughing and trying to finish! 😂
Back to this morning. We had a big climb this morning to a terrific sunrise! We had another very decent ‘Up’ then a bit of down then 2 more peaks or Altos. The equivalent of 68 flights of stairs. Then we went down, down, down! 4-6km into Triacastela.
This morning we woke at 6:30am hit the 7am coffee and toast with tomatoes or marmalade ( I sub a banana and tea). I am still in the alternate milk products waste land. Dairy country, and that’s OK. 😉
Continuing on, we had a very steep climb to O’Cabriero, a place with an amazing very old church. The story goes, the parish pries , in the 80’s (?) started painting the yellow arrows we all follow now ( avoiding old maid and getting lost on an 800km journey) and pushed for the stone markers.
In the early 80’s in his old van starting in the Pyrenees, he started painting arrows. There priest came upon Basque separatists who were ‘squabbling’ at the time with the Guardia Civil ( local enforcement)- Basque feel they are occupied by Spain. To say the least the Basque were suspicious of a priest painting yellow arrows around the countryside.
The priest explained he was planning ‘an invasion’! Sadly, this parish priest died in the late 1980’s, only to have seen a trickle of his invasion beginning. ❤️
Today we walked by many very small chapels and old churches. I would never get to our destination if I took photos of all! I wish I could!💖
The countryside in Galacia is amazing! So green. I could’ve taken hundreds of photos but decided to take most with my eyes.
In the altitude even nap, the red X was this mornings start the far right hand side she’s the end village.
We are showered, larder is done, we’ve been fed, and we ran into 2 different grips of Australians we’ve met, one Bavarian, the gal in the Lilac coat ( Asian?, very sweet!), and a few more, this evening.
Ready for sleep it’s 9pm here and your noon.
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