Triacastela to Sarria

Shortish walk today just 17.9km. There was a bit of vertical nonsense though. Mostly through cow country again. These are all dairy herds I think.

(While I think of it we had a top notch 3 course menu del dia last night up the street at the Complexo Xacabeo. 12€ each. A very well run establishment.)

Leaving in the dark as usual after breakfast at our pensión, Casa David, we climbed steadily for a couple of hours up past San Xil. At the peak we were up 400 meters.

The rest of the walk was a steady descent of 628 meters to Sarria.

We refueled with some snacks from the vending machine in the village of Montán.

We stopped for lunch at Pintín where we had the local version of a meat pie: not bad.

About 3km on a dirt track beside the road to enter Sarria.

The weather was cool, dry and sunny with occasional periods of very strong winds.

We quickly found our digs in the Pensión Rua Peregrino.

This is a fairly big town but definitely rural. We heard cows mooing a kilometer or so from our pension. You can also smell cow stuff from the middle of town when the wind is right.

We will run a few errands when the shops open later.

We are now about 113km from Santiago. We expect to cover it in 5.5 more days. Many people just walk from here to Santiago. We are expecting heavier traffic due to those joining the route here.Read more