I walked my first camino in 2003. I kept a diary, which I usually wrote when i arrived at the place I would be staying the night, so some details may have got confused by the time I got there. On the day I walked from Triacastela to Sarria I walked the San Xill route, though I have no memory of it at all. I know that I didn't walk the Samos route. I wrote:"The scenery was beautiful, even in the rain. I took a photo near Bando of a wall of vegetation." I have been unable to find any place called Bando (or anything like Bando) between Triacastela and Sarria. I left Triacastela at about 8:30, and I was writing my diary at 4:53 in Sarria. Google maps tells me that it is 17.9 km from Triacastela to Sarria and it can be walked in a little under 4 hours (3 hours 49 minutes). I arrived in Sarria at about 2 o'clock (5½ hours after starting). I wrote: "About half way there was a café/bar/shop where almost everyone seemed to have stopped or would stop." I'm pretty sure that place was Casa do Franco, since I stopped there last year. I might have stopped there for no more than half an hour. In 2003 I was still using film in my camera, so I have no timings on my photos and no GPS. There is no point in my attaching a photo of the wall of vegetation, as there are no clues to its location in the photo. (The firm that developed the film digitised the photos.) What makes my confusion worse is that I captioned the photo "Cortiñas 102 km Green wall near Bando." I have no idea where I got that information from. But it can't be right, as Sarria is 110 km from Santiago, so Cortiñas would come after Sarria, unless '102 km' is a typo for '120 km'. So, does anybody know of a place called Bando between Triacastela and Sarria, and a place called Cortiñas anywhere on the Camino Francés?
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