Camino Day 33: Barbadelo to Portomarín

Total Distance: 17.9km
Step Count: 31.3k
Blisters to date: 2
Tortillas to date: 25
Injuries: shin splints

Today started with the most beautiful moon and the biggest coffee I‘ve probably been served in my lifetime! ☕️

There was a bit of excitement as we’d reach the actual Km100 mark although the Camino would end very quickly after that.

Close to our first coffee stop for the day, we reunited with Mercedes and Little John, and we’d all spend most of the day walking together.

Despite the loads and loads of pilgrims on the way, the trail was so beautiful and full of cute animals, shadow from the trees and so many other lil surprises like the man playing the bagpipes and so many cool stamps! 🐴

Short days and stopping every so often had become our new thing! So was getting our drinks on. 🍷

At the last cafe, we bumped into Christian and his friend. After a few (way too many) jokes, Chris ended up gifting each one of us a pair of tiny Dutch clogs. He’d been gifting them to special people along the way. In exchange to this lovely gesture, I offered a watercolour (at his own risk obviously) which he happily accepted and that’s how my own camino stamp came to be! 🎨

We were all also commenting on the crazy amounts of people and in an attempt to create somewhat of a bubble that would hold our camino magic, we all agreed to meet up for dinner in town. 🍝

The entrance to Portomarín was so beautiful, crossing the bridge over the reservoir. In town, we also went to see the Church of St. Nicholas which was relocated stone by stone when the reservoir was built. You can actually see the numbers on the stones that were carved to make sure it was rebuilt exactly as it was in its current location. ⛪️

For dinner, we ended up at a proper Italian restaurant (the only one we ever encountered) and indulged! Tommaso picked some flowers for all of us too 🌺

There was so much laughter over dinner and at one point we decided that for 3 minutes, everyone was going to speak at the same time but in their native language. There was around 7 languages on the table and it was a fascinating and hilarious experiment. 😂

It was nice to still have this bubble and before calling it a day, we all agreed we’d aim to do it all over again at the next town!

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