Day 34: To Palas di Rei

It was a foggy morning…
As has become my routine I started my walk shortly before 8am and proceeded over the bridge leaving Portomarin headed to Palas de Rei.
Galicia (the area in Spain where I’m currently walking) is truly beautiful. Lots of greenery, flowers and of course, more quaint villages. Today about 80% of the Camino was on (mostly) tree covered trails and the remainder was on small country roads. In proportion to the increased number of Peregrinos there are more independent vendors set up on the trail. Some selling their crafts, some like a woman Miriam, just collecting stories from pilgrims about their Camino.
One of my favorite stops of the day was an ancient Pagan site that was inhabited from about the fourth century BC, to the start of the Roman occupation. The somewhat surprising thing is although not visible from the trail, it was marked with a plaque and only about 400 feet off the Camino. Still in their quest to get to their destination virtually no one took the (very) short path to the site. They walked by totally unaware of its existence.
It was pretty cool to be walking around exploring the (fairly small) spaces where people were living and working twenty-five hundred years ago.
My tiny Camino perspective is how many people or things do we pass by unaware every day, missing that with a little focus they may have an effect on us.
Today was a fairly long day at just over 26km (or just over 16 miles) and I was hot and tired by the time I arrived in Palis de Rei. After dropping off my backpack it was great to run into a group of my Camino family for dinner.
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