17/9/2014 0 Comments Day 16 to 20 The CaminoDay 16 Aug 16 Villar de Mazarife to Murias de Rechivaldo
35.2 Km Started walking 7:10 am finished 4:15 pm It's been a good day, walk through lots of little villages mainly on gravel roads away from the main roads, lot’s of the tracks or roads we walked on were very hard to walk on big stones all over 5 to 10 cm diameter, so had to be very careful not to twist angle and it has now become a bit up and down so harder to move fast. We walked for 2 hours before first stop, Andre from Germany and Eva from Sweden is there too, we talk about to stop at Murias de Rechivaldo which is about 36 km, we just don't know for sure yet, our feet are not very good we loose Eva and Andre here and meet Big Ben in the next town with 2 girls from the US, he wants to get rid of them ha-ha and join Svend and Svend (us) we walk together about 10 km, have lot’s of talk about Schneider and IT. Ben is IT person. We loose Ben and have lunch 4 km before Arstroga, it's now 2pm very hot and we still have 8 km to go, I changed bandages and we get on with it, its very hard going but we get to Arstroga, must say Arstroga is a beautiful town with some nice historic buildings, we are both happy when we finally arrive. We had a fantastic breakfast in our Albergue in San Antonio all you could ask for, also the dinner last night was really good. The lady at the Albergue in San Antonio put some crème and bandages on my little toes, I slept with them and she wanted me to walk with them today, well I slept with them but could not walk with them, not enough space in the shoes, must say I was amassed how great my small toes looked this morning ha-ha) it was very hard to get going but after 1 hour it was not too bad Towns we walked through today: Villa de Mazarife. Hospital de Orbigo. Villares de Orbigo. Santibanez de Valdeiglesias. San Justo de la Vega. Astorga. Murias de Rechivaldo Day 17 Aug 17 Murias de Rechivaldo to 32.6 Km Started walking 6:10 am finished 3:15 pm Another day on The Way in Paradise. Woke early 5:45 am there where no breakfast here before 6:30 am so we decided to go early, the first about 19km was quite straight and easy walk even now it's much nicer to walk then the in the past days we are walking away from traffic roads and through some beautiful villages, some of them seem to be deserted and the houses does not look that great, the old houses are mainly build of natural stones so only the roofs falls down the walls will stand for a long time. After 19 km it's becomes much more a bush walk through little tracks and very much up and down we started this morning at 900 meters go to 1500 meters and come back very steeply to 1000 meters also it has been a very warm day with no wind at all, strange to see the 100’s of windmills on the mountain ridges not moving at all, so quite a challenging day BUT GREAT Stopped a few times today: for coffee after 1 hour, morning tea 2 hours after that, and lunch 1 hour after that, we also had a little coffee break before the big downhill about 1:45 pm Had a pretty good day got bandages on ok, and it only took me 30min before most pains had gone this morning, changed 1 bandage at 11am and socks. Usually I change socks, to the thin ones in the afternoon, it seem like my feet have got bigger in the afternoon. Still last night I had big problems sleeping it seen like the feet keep working, but I think the magnesium have helped a bit. We are out of cream now; I will try to buy some stuff on my own tomorrow I talk very briefly the my wife my love my life don't have a chance to call back she seem to be ok I got a message from her Towns we walked through today: Murias de Rechivaldo. Santa Catalina de Samoza. El Ganso. Crux de Ferro. Manjarin. El Acebo Day 18 Aug 18 El Acebo to Cacabelos 31.3Km Started walking 6:30 am finished 2:30 pm. An other day in the fantastic world we live in and do all we can to damage it. First I must note, we had a really nice sunset last night with the cross on top of our hill and the sun setting over the mountains behind, I had a coffee and a smoke with Eva from Sweden The walk today was downhill the first approx. 7 km very steep on little tracks through the bush I was in really good shape and was kind of slowly running some of the way not to hurt my feet too much, after the 7 km it became like urban area for a very long time about 18 km, the main town was called Ponferrada quite nice with churches and old Spanish buildings but boring after a while. In the morning today it was not cold at all, in the afternoon it became very hot and must say the last 6 km was very though. The landscape today has gone from really nice mountains to urban town like area the town Ponferrada have about 65000 people. The Albergue church we stayed at last night was donations, we got a bed, evening meal and breakfast We stay in a church Albergue today as well the cost is 5 euro it’s 2 people to a room very basic but ok. I had a shower washed cloth and tried to sleep, but to many flies, I really have problems with my feet again, they just seem to not settle down, Eva give me a foot massage it was absolutely fantastic. We the 4 amigos now go out for dinner Svend Svend Andree and Eva. Hopefully I will be able to walk tomorrow, we have planned about 32 km Towns we walked through today: El Acebo. Diego de Ambros. Molinaseca. Campo. Ponferrada. Columbrianos. Fuentes Nuevas. Camponaraya. Cacabelos. Day 19 Aug 19 Cacabelos to Alto do Poio 45.8 km ( plus at least 3 km wrong = 48.8 km ) Started walking 6:05 am finished 6:25 pm. Hi we and I are still alive, how great is that???? It was an early start to what became quite a special day The first hour was in the dark along a road out of Cacabelos, after about an hour we turned right and it became more gravel roads we started going in to more hilly area with cows in the fields we stopped for a bit of breakfast in Villafranca after about 1,5 hour, we were doing really well and I started to wonder if the km was right after the maps (it was not after 3 hours we had walked 19 km which was not right). Eva and the others though it was right. I knew we was planning a 40 km day tomorrow so I suggested to keep going to at least La Laguna de Castilla but there were no takers. I really walked most of the time on my own today anyway needed some space. Anyway we started getting in to the real hills from 600meter going up to nearly 1300 meters, La Faba is at 900 meters, we got there at about 2:45pm I got there last. I broke the news that I wanted to go on at least an other 10 Km, said I felt it would be to much for tomorrow they reluctantly accepted and I freely walked on. Took some wonderful photos of the village La Faba first. Must admit it got very hard walking, but it was nice to be on my own so I could walk in the speed I wanted, it was a beautiful walk through wonderful villages and at the nearly top I met Andrea and Julian the 2 Italian guys, I stopped and had a banana with them, they wanted me to stay it was space in the Albergue but only 5.5 km from where I had left the other guys I wanted an other 5 km, again the small villages here are all milking cow country, so lots of cow poo on the road and very beautiful when I arrive at 5:45 pm at Hospital de Condesa it was full, so I had to walk an other 3 km, did not get there before 6:35pm It was a long beautiful walk but also very hard Got an Albergue here, a wonderful shower, some meat and potato for dinner got my phone charged a bit from some German people Towns we walked through today: Cacabelos. Villagranca del Bierzo. Trabadelo. La Portela. Ambasmestas. Vega de Valcarcel. Ruitelan. Las Herrerias. La Faba. La Laguna. O Cebreiro. Linares. Hospital de la Condesas. Alto do Poio Day 20 Aug 20 Alto do Poio to Sarria. 30.7 km Started walking 8:04 am finished 3:30 pm. It has been a day with fantastic landscape very hilly and lots of small villages with lots of cows 95% of the time have been walking on little tracks or very small dirt road with lots of cow poo. I started at one of the highest points on the last leg of the Camino about 1300 meter, It went downhill for the first few hours to about 700 meter then up again to about 900 meters. We planned to meet at Calbor since I was quite a bit in front of Svend Eva and Andre When I came to Calbor it was quite a away from any restaurants and shops, I went on an other 2 km they only had 3 beds so ended up at a camping ground with 2 Amy tents with 7 beds in each I reserved 4 beds and booked in at about 3:30 pm, washed clothes had shower and gave my feet a good massage, Svend and the others arrived at about 5:30 pm Eva and Andre continued 1.5 km to Sarria to an Albergue, Svend stays here it's different but ok the others have done 43 km today I'm glad I did the extra km yesterday it has made it quite easy to get here today. Svend is talking about doing the last 113km over the next 3 days so we may be in Santiago Aug 23 I just rang Helen to try to get her here by then, haven't told yet to anybody she maybe coming. Svend and I will go for dinner across the road for Camino dinner 8,50 euro, to stay at the camping ground is 7 euro Town we walked through today: Alto do Poio. Fonfria. Viduedo. Triacastela. San Xil. Calvor. Samos. To near Sarria. Me me me: Great to talk with Helen last night but still glad I have been on my own to last 27 hours plus the time I had yesterday I seem to have cleaned up some stuff. I had breakfast at the place I stayed at 2,50 euro had morning tea at Triacastela toast and coffee got phone charged and had lunch near Samos. Hope the next week will be fantastic, Helen is coming and we finish the Camino
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