Day 84 - Vilaserio to Olveiroa

This morning we awoke feeling a little ropey🙄 but persevered because we are hardened travellers.
Things didn’t bode well as Simon looked out of the window to see grey, leaden skies. He was also dismayed to see how many pilgrims were already on the road!
We had bacon butties with coffee to get us motivated and out of the door.
We had a 20 km walk in front of us. We started bold with no ponchos but quite quickly could see the mizzle and signs of rain ahead.
We were on a busy route and Simon got into his usual ‘race the pilgrim’ mentality- I left him to it!
Here was some good, attractive open countryside with small settlements and farms. Some had a few loose dogs roaming around who seemed quite excitable, this was unnerving as you can’t move too fast or protect yourself with a big rucksack on your back. They turned out to be friendly enough, thank goodness 😅
There were a lot of handsome jays on route, we also heard the frogs again in a ditch we passed that reminded us of our French walks.
The mist and rain were upon us about a third of the way in, so we donned our ponchos- we are learning to read the sky well.
We had quite a few long climbs on the route that led to some good views but also a stiff breeze.
As we came out of a wood and into another settlement we came across a cafe. We decided to halt the race and stop for a coffee and a slice of chocolate cake as the bacon butties had worn off.
A lot of other pilgrims joined us.
The end of the walk had steep climbs and was very windy, however the rain subsided 👍
We reached our destination- Casa Loncho which is a smart solid stone set of rooms with lovely views over the countryside.
It has a great restaurant attached which did us a healthy salad, pizza and lasagna.
We are hunkered in room now awaiting ‘the match’!
We head for Finisterre tomorrow - the end of our westward journey.Read more