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Campobecerros

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    • Day 11

      Day 47 - Campobecerros - 21.1 km

      November 6, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

      Weather: 4 - 13 with fog and light rain all the morning
      Clothes: The same

      The walk - a grey day
      Mist and fog and very light drizzle for most of the walk. Which meant that there was not much to see so after my early morning spiritual music I put on an audio book, put my head down and just put one foot in front of the other.
      The clouds parted in the early afternoon and I got to my destination around 2.30 pm - a 6.5 hour walk.
      The knee is now fine but the old foot injury is a bit tender after some strenuous days - and today was about my maximum kms.
      Today we were in open mountain country with lots of ups and downs -around 1000 metres above sea level. There was also quite a lot of evidence of last summers fires here as well.
      Not much more to say. I haven’t had a coffee today so I think I am ready for a snooze. I forgot it was Sunday and nothing was open in the morning before we left - and there were only tiny three-house villages along the way. I am still walking with Juan although we walk at our own pace and meet up at the end of the day.
      It’s sort of good to have a ‘boring’ day in the fog - just relaxing and walking. But to be honest I felt grumpy and resistant- one of those days when I would rather be somewhere else.
      Campobecerros is a little town surrounded by hills - again reminds me of the towns in the Snowy Mountains. I am in the bar having my usual late lunch.
      The Albergue is warm, has blankets and new bathrooms. Really - what more could a girl want.
      This is the first time I have come across Peliqueiro, a traditional figure of the Laza Carnival - his statue is outside the albergue.

      Buen Camino

      PS. I slept for about 12 hours and I think this town might be a bit depressing. Or else I’m getting road weary. It’s been a while since I had a day off. Looking forward to Orense and the hot springs.
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    • Day 46

      Vilavella - Campobecerros 25.6.2018

      June 25, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      Wow! Das war eine außergewöhnlich schöne Etappe mit den vielleicht spektakulärsten Ausblicken des ganzen Caminos. Auf dem zweiten Teil des Tages.

      Der erste Teil führte mich heute morgen auf der bewährten N-525 von Vilavella über 13 km zunächst nach A Gudina. Die N-525 verabschiedete sich dort auch nach Süden. Ich werde sie in guter Erinnerung behalten 😁 Von dem ersten Teilstück gibt es sonst nicht so arg viel zu berichten. Die Ausblicke waren schön, aber im Grunde eben nur die Fortsetzung dessen, was ich gestern auf dem Weg nach Vilavella sehen konnte. Nach etwa 3 Stunden war ich in A Gudina und stärkte mich in einer Bar. Dann folgte der 2. Teil nach Campobecerros.

      Auf einem Weg ging es aus dem Ort hinaus, der in einer Landstrasse mündete. Diese wiederum wurde dann zu einer Höhenstrasse, wie sie im Buche steht. Wahnsinnsausblicke zu beiden Seiten der Strasse in die Täler. Man hätte endlos fotografieren können. Ich habe das natürlich weidlich ausgenutzt. Die Höhenstrasse führte durch mehrere winzige Ortschaften, oftmals nicht mehr als kleine Häuseransammlungen. Idylle pur. Wer die Abgeschiedenheit sucht und dabei auf grandiose Ausblicke nicht verzichten will, ist dort goldrichtig.

      Ich kam beim ganzen Staunen und Fotografieren etwas ins Trödeln 😁 und legte dann auf den letzten 7 Kilometern einen Zahn zu. Oder zwei 😎 Das schlauchte dann etwas, denn obwohl es nur abwärts ging, ging das dann doch mehr in die Stelzen als gewohnt. Ich war nicht übermäßig traurig, als ich gegen 17 Uhr in der Pension ankam, in der ich heute übernachte. Eines fiel mir eben sofort auf, als ich kurz die Etappe von morgen überflog; es sind zwar nur 26 km, aber auf den letzten 6 km darf ich die 400 Höhenmeter, die ich eben zum Ende hin bergab ging, wieder bergauf stiefeln. Ich bin begeistert 😎

      Am Donnerstag bin ich in Ourense und heute in einer Woche in Santiago de Compostella angekommen, wenn alles nach Plan läuft. Dann noch knapp hundert Kilometer ans Cap und das war es dann schon gewesen. Jetzt vergeht die Zeit doch irgendwie immer schneller. Nicht zu fassen. Im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.

      Stand heute: 1.032 km 🌟🚶🍀
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    • Day 8

      Campobecerros

      August 2, 2014 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

      7:20 we left as last. Drizzle, fog and rain, but not so cold … first, but getting colder when our clothes gets wet. We overtook the other pilgrims and met the woman-walking-man-biking pair. She was quite quick, so no wonder the man couldn’t make it on foot.

      11:00 breakfast ( toast+marmalade+tee/coffee) in Campobecerros, the others pilgrims arrived short after us, they took probably a typical local breakfast: 1 bottle wine, cheese, salami, bacon, tomato, bread.
      The weather was getting better = less wet. In Eiras there was a small pilgrim-oasis with drinks, cookies … Thanks for it!
      Here we met a local man who had worked in Zürich and in Munich and spoke little bit German.
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    • A Gudiña to Laza

      April 17 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 54 °F

      Another long climb, mostly on a paved road surrounded by purple heather, yellow and white flowers. Every day so far has been perfect weather, cool in the morning, around 75f in the afternoon. We"re lucky because Galicia is often very rainy.
      We passed through several small villages with old stone buildings and a few modern houses, but everything locked up and no one in sight. We continued to climb and I watched Olivia ahead of me, hoping her figure would descend, signalling a break in the climb.

      Finally we reached the top of the ridge, with distant views in every direction. I had read a couple of things about the next town, where we planned to stay, Campobecerros. I knew that the descent to the town was steep and on unstable slate scree.

      I also read alarmingly bad reviews of the one hostal in Campobecerros; that the woman who ran it was rude and unwelcoming and the rooms were dingy. One reviewer said, " just keep walking, don't even stop at the bar for coffee!" The reviews were so bad, it almost made me more interested in staying there to experience it! I mean I dont care how we,'re treated; we just wanted a place to sleep.
      We entered the hostal through the bar, which was dark and full of locals, loud, either with joy or anger We recognized the sour owner right away, who pointedly ignored us. When I finally got her attention and asked for a room, she acted put out, led us to a room with two beds and left us. Dingy it was, and with that tell-tale musty aroma suggesting bedbugs. We lifted the sheet and all along the rim of the mattress was a line of spots of bood and scat from a long-term infestation. In case we weren't sure if the problem had been resolved, there was a dead bedbug on top of the sheet which meant either the bugs were still there or the sheet hadn't been changed since they were.

      We went back to the bar, itching all over just from what we'd seen, and asked the "lady" to call us a taxi to Laza. She said sure, no problem and it was the first time we saw her smile, as we walked out the door.
      (Pictures to come)

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