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We walked along the highway to Padornelo because people in Requejo told us the river route was not passable.
However I talked to a guy the next day who went that way and said it was fine. There has been no rain for at least the last two weeks...
My daughter and I just arrived in Ourense, having started walking from Puebla Sanabria on Apr 14th. We've gotten to know a few pilgrims that we run into at the albergues.
But guess how many pilgrims we"ve seen on the trail over the last 8 days...
More specifically, the room had the telltale musty scent of bedbugs. There was copious evidence on the edges of the mattress of a longterm bedbug infestation and a dead bedbug on top of the sheet that suggested a current infestation, or that the...
I know posting bad reviews of accomodations is frowned upon here. I can accept very simple, even primitive conditions when I travel. But suffice it to say. after seeing the room at Casa Nuñez in Campobecerros, we called a taxi to take us to Laza...
Wolves! I want to see a wolf! At one point, there was a local man was walking a ways ahead of us on the road. A couple of large canines - looked like wolves to me! - slipped down out of the forest and were walking behind him. Looked like they...
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