Old Town - Day 16

A lie in of 8am.

How things change.

Today was a gift to myself to explore the historic side to the Camino. And Pontevedra is the second most important city after Santiago in Spain.

The Sanctuary of Apparitions was a road of from where I was staying. So I headed here and I was greeted by a nun. Who tried talking to me in Spanish, I didn’t receive it all. But I went into the chapel and sat alone, and then climbed the stairs to the second floor for where the historical apparitions took place.

There I sat/kneeled and had quiet contemplation for a while. Not fussed about who came in while my eyes were closed.

After this I went to the Basilica. A beautiful church. And was there for when they opened the massive front doors.

I sat in front of a beautiful panelled wall by myself and again.m sat quietly.

I wandered to get my stamp. Quickly realising I would like one from the sanctuary of apparitions, I returned to get one too.

I then walked further up to the Old Town. Grabbed, hopefully, a last pack of blisters blasters (which I swear have a premium on due to pilgrims).

Little ice-cream for exploring. And then lunch, a cute place, Momo Fucker, that does burger etc - but the name was better than the food.

I headed to the Franscian monastery but this was closed. But I did sit a while, people watching.

Ok the way home a Czech 🇨🇿 female and her partner called out to me noticing my water shoes and asked if I was walking in them. I said no but we had an interesting conversation with Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 knowing precisely where I came from based on my accent - which was a first.

We decided to rejoin up for dinner. Where it was Ross’s birthday and went to the same place I went to the night before. And shared tapas.

We then headed off respectively for an early night with both of us having 21kms ahead of us the next day.

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