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[QUOTE="alansykes, post: 975706, member: 9811"] Judging by the new waterfalls gushing out of the hillsides, it must have been chucking it down all night. Soon after I reluctantly left my breakfast, it more or less stopped raining, and an hour or so later there were brief interludes of watery sunshine. Wet underfoot, of course, as the altos got steadily less alto - a brisk climb up San Martiño at about 850m, then Santo Domingo at a mere 700. Still quite energetic, but lovely to see gorse already flowering. By the time I got to Lalín station at about 2pm I was ready to eat. Despite the restaurant clearly being packed with weekend customers, they kindly made me up a table in the bar. With delicious fried anchovies and a generous tasty chunk of bacalao, washed down by a nice albariño, I assume it was an expensive menú del fin de semana, but it was only 10€, outstanding price/quality ratio. At Donsión they're building a new commercial albergue and restaurant. I bumped into a lovely old gadgie nearby (this has been the camino of lovely old gadgies and astonishing long views). He was determined to try out his rusty French on me, having worked in the vines in the Midi in the late 60s - only about 40km from where I worked in them in the early 80s. If you had happened to be passing, you would have seen an Englishman talking poor Spanish to a Galician talking poor French about methods of pruning vines and why the wine from up here wasn't as good as that from the land lower down. I think he was a little stir crazy, as I understood him to say he'd been self-isolating since March last year, with just three bread deliveries a week, and one each of other essentials (meat, fish and veg, most of which he grows himself). At A Laxe's albergue Esus (?sp, pronounced Jésus) had just arrived from the Invierno, and was raving about the beauty of As Médulas, and had stayed in the new albergue in Montforte de Lemos, which he recommended. The forecast for tomorrow is no rain until the afternoon, so I'll probably stop in Ponte Ulla. It started pouring really hard shortly after I arrived at A Laxe, so taking the extra couple of hours yesterday afternoon probably helped me dodge a(nother) bullet. [ATTACH alt="IMG_20211127_123140.jpg"]114005[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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