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    • TravelerOne More Camino in Spain 2023
      11
      Day 56

      Rest day in Sarria

      May 22, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

      Another rest day today, sort of by accident when making the itinerary, but worked well because R and R had had 2 quite big walks after arriving and another non walking day was quite welcome. And Sarria is a pleasant town, quite busy as many arrivals by bus and train, ready to start a camino here. We decided to have an excursion to Samos which has a famous huge monastery…it is on an alternate camino route between Triacastela and Sarria, but a bit longer, so we have never taken that route! Quite a short taxi ride, and well worth it…you have to take a tour to see it, and it was in Spanish, but a very nice guide, and she sometimes answered questions in English, or explained things…it is an enormous Benedictine monastery dating from the 12th century or the very beginning even earlier. And Samos is another rather nice town..lots of veg gardens - growing cabbages (the ones on stalks) and potatoes, and fruit trees. We had a drink in a hotel while waiting for the taxi back, and were given a complimentary tapas of paella! Just hit the right spot!

      Now some downtime - I found the bus station, and there is a bus to Portomarin, our next destination, at 2.15 tomorrow…I should arrive at much the same time as the walkers. Amr and I had a drink and booked the restaurant for dinner tonight…don’t know how busy it will be, but they seemed to think it was a good idea…and this is a very popular strip of restaurants along the river, just near our hotel.

      Just back from dinner…a great meal…Amr and I shared a big piece of beef that we had seen someone having at (late) lunch time, and it was excellent…thick and just done au point as we love it…a ferritin boost! I think I needed that. It’s starting to get dark, at almost 10 pm, so it must be bedtime!      Read more

    • Camino
      122
      Day 50

      Sarria (13.1km / 652.3km)

      June 1, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      It’s funny how the shorter walks can be more mentally challenging! Maybe we’re just not as well prepared as we are for a long day (like tomorrow). The beginning of the walk had steep uphill on muddy and slippery paths, so there was no gentle start and there were so many short up and downs that it was hard to get into a rhythm quickly. The map wasn’t quite right either so we weren’t 100% sure we were on the right track but got there …
      We walked in a group of 6 with a lot of chatting and a couple of stops for coffee which was quite entertaining including a Dutch lady with a lovely sense of humour and a young German girl.
      The environment was peaceful along the river with the sounds of birds all day, and through farming “hamlets”. Couldn’t quite call them villages! We eventually arrived in Sarria, our stop for the night at Albergue Pedra, run by a very friendly host. Sarria is the official start of the Camino for those who want to do the least distance and still receive a Compestella certificate of completion at the end. From Sarria we need to receive two stamps per day if we want to receive our Compestella. So Sarria is packed with many new pilgrims, easily spotted by their clean shoes and tidy clothes.
      We had a nap for the first time before heading into the city for our main meal, a walk around the city, mass (with many new pilgrim faces), a late desert and then back home.
      The food is getting seriously good, especially the seafood and veggies! They say a picture is worth a thousand words so see below!
      We’re still grateful for Jane’s feet! All good!
      And I heard yesterday that my cousin Barbara and her husband Steve will be starting in Sarria on Monday and arriving in Santiago on Friday - the same day as us. Buen Camino and see you Friday!      Read more

    • Camino
      2
      2213
      Day 51

      Portomarin (23km / 675.3km)

      June 2, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

      What a difference a day makes! We’ve been used to small groups and mostly walking alone unless you pass or are passed. Today there are pilgrims everywhere, many excited because it was their first day from Sarria.
      We walked with Louise, the Dutch lady we met a couple of days ago and she loves her coffee and a smoke. If she had her way she would stop at every place but we had a long day ahead. We had a half breakfast before leaving early at 7 and stopped for first breakfast 4.5km down the road. The queues really tested our patience. The food was good but we stayed much longer than we wanted to and the coffee wasn’t worth having so we stopped again 5km later. The crowd had died down a bit.
      At the 100km to go mark local had a stamp to commemorate the event and he helped by telling us with all the pilgrims on the road now this stage was the “Camino of Tolerance”.
      We walked longer than normal for lunch because of a highly recommended place called Mercadoiro and were not disappointed! Beautifully fresh salad, tender pulpa and a Sangria before our 5km walk to Portomarin. It was a long day from 7:15 to 3:45 and we were hot and tired at the end but in good shape physically and feet all good too!
      All these events distracted from some lovely scenery and villages.
      We walked around the town, found a beer and then went to an Italian place for dinner with Louise. Yummy pizza and lasagna with sangria. Tomorrow morning we will spend time in Portomarin before our short walk.      Read more

    • TravelerCamino de Santiago de León
      1
      1111111
      Day 14

      Walking Day 10 to Somos y Sarria

      June 3, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F

      Walked 16.7 miles today. First, today we had to choose between a short route or a longer route that passes by El Monasterio de San Julián de Samos. I chose the longer route, and walked start to Sarria with Luis. Luis is an internatioal accountant from Puerto Rico who is the same age as me and walks at the same pace. Interestingly,he lived in Fredonia for awhile several years ago to learn English. Luis is a very kind man who was very outgoing and made sure the other peregrinos were doing OK. He gave some Tylenol and advised an older woman with some serious ankle pain. I didn't eat very much today, and ran out of water. We stopped just before Sarria for water, and Luis bought us gránde beers and tapas. Luis pointed me toward my hotel and we each went our way. I'm pretty sure we'll meet again because our itineraries are similar. For dinner we stopped by a nearby pizzeria. Eduin, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic poured his whole heart into making us feel welcome and treating us like royalty. We had a great time there. He made us an expresso that was so good it was worth keeping me from sleepingRead more

    • TravelerDavid and Sean’s Camino
      2
      Day 37

      Welcome to Galicia!

      July 8, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F

      After dialysis yesterday we attempted to make the jump to Sarria, missed a bus connection, spent the night in Lugo, then completed our jump late this morning.

      We are now in the last region of the Camino—Galicia, and it is gorgeous! After the wide open spaces of the Meseta it feels close and comfortable. Sean likened it to the Shire in Tolkien’s world of hobbits.

      We are behind schedule but really enjoying the scenery as you can see from the videos and pics!      Read more

    • Auf dem Jakobsweg
      Day 9

      Fonfria - Sarria (Fahrrad)

      July 18, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      Heute erreichten wir nach einer rasanten Talfahrt mit den Fahrrädern die von vielen Pilgern gefürchtete Stadt Sarria. Sie ist deshalb gefürchtet, weil sie die letzte Stadt vor dem Kilometerstein 100 ist und somit von vielen Touri-Pilgern als Ausgangspunkt genommen wird. Denn wer die letzten 100 km bis Santiago zu Fuss pilgert, erhält dort die begehrte Compostela. Schon vor Tagen wurden uns Menschenmassen in Sarria prophezeit, dass man die Stadt wenn möglich meiden und grosse Umwege um sie machen sollte, dass die Herbergen rappelvoll seien und es schwierig werden würde, einen Schlafplatz zu finden. Dem war nicht so. Die Massen sind ausgeblieben, eine Herberge haben wir problemlos gefunden, todo bien! Heute haben wir es gemütlich genommen und Kraft getankt für die letzten hundert Kilometer. Morgen geht es nach Portomarin. Buenas noches y hasta mañana!Read more

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    • TravelerCamino de Santiago
      1111
      Day 22

      Fresh energy in Sarria

      August 21, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

      I made it to Sarria - the town where most people who walk the final 100km start the Camino. Anyone who walks the final 100km qualifies for the Compostela certificate in Santiago, so a lot of people start here.

      It’s interesting to be a few weeks into this experience and suddenly be surrounded by people who are all fresh energy and excitement. In some ways it helps lend some fresh energy to me, too. Thankfully I rid myself of any sense of competition when I offered myself the grace not to walk the whole thing, so I don’t begrudge anyone who is joining the walk now.

      I didn’t take many pictures today because I was honestly pretty scared walking from Samos to Sarria. The trail from Samos didn’t reconnect with the main Camino trail for 6 miles and there weren’t any towns with cafes to stop in along the way like there usually are on the main trail. I left late and didn’t see anyone for the first 4 miles. I was glad my legs are stronger now because I basically speed walked for 4 miles while my mind imagined all the scary things that could happen being alone in the woods. At one point I did hear some rustling and two big German Shepard-like wild dogs came running by, but I stood still and they kept running in a different direction.

      I was so relieved when I finally caught sight of some people and could slow down my walking pace. I kept telling myself that I never know who’s ahead of me or behind me on the trail to reassure myself that I wasn’t the only one out there, but I was still relieved to actually see people.

      I doubt I’ll have much trail to myself now that I’m in the final stretch with all the newcomers. Most people who’ve been on the Camino before Sarria find the crowds off-putting, but after today I’m hoping I find them comforting - like being a part of a big school of fish or a murmuration. It could be nice to just get carried along in the crowd.      Read more

    • TravelerCamino23
      111311
      Day 35

      Triacastela to SARRIA

      September 20, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F

      Left for Sarria at 8:30 AM. Approximately 20 km's. First of all the coziest Albergue in a while. Very warm, every amenity in a comfortable place. The manager was such a nice gentleman. Didn't do laundry at O'cebreiro because that place was "The Animal House". But in a fun busy way. So in Triacastela I asked where was the laundry room. He said follow me. The washer and dryer was in use, so I said I would sit and wait. He said no, put your clothes in this basket. (Regular clothes basket). So i sat down to wait. He said no, go and have dinner. This dude washed and dried my clothes, folded them up and had them on my bunk when I returned from dinner. Tried to give him 20 euro, he only took 5. The climb down the mountain was very hard on my feet. Today I will walk with less intensity. Under 100 km's. Buen CaminoRead more

    • Carmel CarlsenCamino Santiago (from Sarria)
      Day 4

      Day 0 - Sarria

      September 27, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

      The drive from Santiago to Sarria was pleasant. It was mostly freeway at 120 klms an hour, and I recalled when I was driving in Montana and the speed limit on the freeway was 120 miles per hour! It was quite a misty morning which always makes the countryside look great. The first town we drive through was packed with pilgrims, which made me a little concerned about how I'm going to be able to deal with the crowds - but I suppressed that thought. I got to Sarria before 11 a.m. and incredibly, my room was ready, so I was able to come right up. I dropped my things off and then set out to explore the town. As you would expect, there are references to the Camino everywhere in town, and I was very pleased to get some hat pins and patches. I'm now waiting for the rest of the ACU group that I will be walking with. They are all on the train from Madrid. I have everything ready to set off tomorrow.Read more

    • Julie RosenthalCamino Frances 2023
      2

      Day 38 - Fillobal to Sarria - 22km

      October 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      Well, are you sitting down to read this? It wasn’t an exciting day but lots of interesting things happened so I may have a bit of a run on the mouth (or fingers in this case).

      First off, I had a wonderful private room last night but I had a terrible sleep. I finally faced the facts yesterday that I have bed bug bites. I had washed everything I own and put in the dryer. I figured it was solved, but I woke up about 1am and had a couple more bites. I am not sure if these were already there and just started itching or if they were new. I was so paranoid about it that I couldn’t really sleep. Every time I thought I felt something, I quickly turned on the lights and nothing was there. At about 4am I finally said, “this is enough, I need sleep, don’t think about it and just sleep.” So I got a good couple hours of sleep.

      I was awake and ready to go by 7:30 so I decided to go. It is still dark until 8am these days so I needed to wear my headlamp. Off I went, about 20 minutes or so into the hike (it was downhill on a path), I could hear someone hiking behind me and see a headlamp. That is no big deal, always happens, but when I looked forward, I saw someone coming towards me (up the hill) that wasn’t wearing a headlamp. I started to wonder why they didn’t have a headlamp and why are they walking backwards on the trail. It took me at least 5 seconds (and count that, it is pretty long), to realize that the figure coming towards me was just me. It was my shadow created by the headlamp on the person behind me. Too funny!

      The hike today was new to me. The last time I was here, the standard trail was through a town called Samos. Now, that part of the trail is an option, and going straight through is the regular trail. The regular one is 6km shorter so you know which one I chose.

      It was shorter, but it was a bit of a challenge. After about 3kms of going down, it was time to go up again. It was a pretty big hill and then there were steep parts going down again. Jenna and I laughed the night before because when you see the elevation profile, it almost looks like the “middle finger”. When I got to the top, I sent Jenna a text saying we definitely named it correctly!

      Today was only 22km (funny I can say only 22km now), but I was feeling extra tired. I am sure it was lack of sleep that contributed to my lack of energy. I made lots of stops to replenish the energy.

      I arrived around 3:30pm, so in the late hot sun again. When I was checking in, Yannette saw me and said a group of them are getting together for dinner at 6 so I joined them. It was fun chatting about nonsense stuff and laughing (I am keeping this PG so I won’t give details). At one point someone asked if we thought we lost weight. Most of us said yes. I can feel it in my shorts and can see it on my face. Then someone had an idea to find a picture from when we started. So I dug back, and boy can I see a difference. That felt good.

      Ok, I am going to head to bed now. Keep our fingers crossed that I don’t see any new bites in the morning or I will definitely need to take more aggressive tactics to rid my stuff of them. The good thing is everything is contained in one bag. The other good thing is that I looked around the table tonight and saw lots of bites, so it ain’t just me.

      TTYL (Video coming tomorrow, sleep 💤 more important today)

      Throwback to 2009 from Julie’s Journal

      The hike today was beautiful. Lots of trees and mountains and very cool old villages. We took our time and walked at a steady pace. I think we finally arrived at the Albergue at 5:30pm. Along the way, Joerg and I kept joking about his “girlfriend”.

      Last night, there was a German lady with a German man that we kept running into. They stopped at our albergue. At one point, Joerg told her that I only spoke English. She didn’t say anything, then he started to say it in German but she cut him off saying she understood. She then still continued to speak in German. At one point, she started rubbing Joerg’s leg for a good 30 seconds then she offered him a mint but did not offer me one. I didn’t think anything of it except that she was a little rude.

      Later I asked what she was talking about when she was rubbing his leg and he said he can’t remember but it was nothing to do with his leg, she was just rubbing it. That was too funny. I don’t feel threatened at all, but we were joking about it all day. For example, there were notes on some posts and he said they were from her telling him to meet her after dark under Cassiopeia.      Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Sarria, サリア, Сарриа, Саррія, 萨里亚

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