Camino Day 35: Palas de Rei to Arzúa

Total Distance: 30.9km
Step Count: 45.1k
Blisters to date: 2
Tortillas to date: 26

Today was all about food! 😋

We had been told on endless occasions that we had to eat Pulpo in Melide so we planned our starting time to be there around lunchtime.

Surprisingly, we also had like 2 hours at the start of the day where there was hardly anyone on the trail, absolute bliss! We figured that most people wouldn’t walk further than Melide so they had no need to start early.

This small city was roughly half the distance we’d plan to cover today so we embraced the slightly longer day for a good cause. A great cause actually because it was one of the best meals we had on the whole Camino! 🐙

Mercedes and I seriously feasted on octopus and shared zamburiñas (a whole other level of deliciousness!). This did leave us with a slight food coma and the rest of the walk would be a bit slower than usual 🙃

By the time we got to Arzua, we were beat! We went to find our beds, did some laundry and napped for a couple hours until dinner time. Mercedes was staying elsewhere so Lukas and I went hunting for a place to eat.

We ended up at the Albergue Café de Ultreia where we ended up enjoying the most elaborate pilgrims menu on the Camino and I finally got to eat Lasagna which I’d been craving for weeks! And a salad that wasn’t an ensalada mixta! 🥗

Lukas wasn’t feeling that great and we were beat so we went to get some fruit for brekkie the next day and called it a day. Less than 40km to go 😯Read more