Day 27, February 25th, I left A Fonsarada clad in rain gear again as it was supposed to rain all day. I was rested and felt good, even when my shoes soaked through before an hour was up (I signed up for this
). Almost all the snow had melted as I had hoped, so water was the order of the day today, buckets of it. Water came down and sideways, leaving A Fonsarada you go up again and over another "Alto" de something or other, there are ruins of a Hospital up there I took shelter from the pelting rain for a minute, all I had to do was stand next to a lee wall. Coming down the other side, the wind calmed as the altitude dropped. Maybe 2 or 3km before A Lastra there is a church with a gate that appeared locked but my velociraptor self had try the handle and I was able to take a dry snack break in the covered entrance. When I came out the gate again there were two other hikers/pilgrims? and their support vehicle. The driver of the support vehicle said it was impassable about a km ahead and offered to give me a lift to A Lastra, showing me a video he had taken of a torrent crossing the Way. I didn't think it looked impassable, declined the lift and went ahead, I was able to leap it, albeit getting one foot on the bank and one in the drink. After A Lastra the heavy rains/snowmelt had maxed out the drainage ditches and there was lots of overflow so it was climbing a bank here, jumping through the lesser of two puddles there for a few kms. The first coffee break/open café was O Cádavo, where I sat dripping, watching sideways rain, the gusts opening and closing the café door. I wrapped up again, mentally preparing myself and continued on my way to Castroverde, my destination at the municipal albergue there. As soon as I stepped out the rain stopped and except for scattered showers it was dry(nothing was dry
), the sun even came out for a bit. The Way was full of puddles and near Castroverde, between two walls the path had standing water from wall to wall. Providence presented a farmer on a tractor at that moment and he gave me a lift on the back through the 50m pond(the Camino provides).