sulu
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- a few since 2010
I´ve taken off again with the aim of walking to Finisterra. I thought I wouls break my feet in gently so started in Samos on Wednesday, I think it´s my feet breaking me in!
It is strange starting at the end but I´ve been using small albergues which I would really recommend to anyonee doing a short stretch, they are really much friendlier places. I would also recommend carrying some kind of cooking utensil if you are walking in Galicia, it´s astonishing the friends you make when you have the only pan
I spent the first night outside Sarria (somewhere beginning with B that I want to call Beldorado but know that it isn´t). The municipal was already full at 4.30 but there is a private Albergue. Only drawback was that the bathroom facilities are a small shower room with wash basin and loo together, this for 12 people! There is not much in the village but it meant that there was a nice friendly atmosphere.
2nd night Gonzar - albergue fine, not much privacy in the bathroom but they are unisex. It was also full but not till later. Full of French and Spanish. There were no shops but there is a bar right next door and it opens at 7.30 am
Last night Casanova, nice little albergue, no bar, no shop and no equipment in the kitchen, my pan was very useful! We also learnt that you can cook chestnuts in a pan of water! Last night 10 of us of whom 6 were German.
Now I´m in Melide, weather foggy but it has been lovely up to now and I suspect that the fog will clear as the day goes on. So I must go and buy some food for tonight and carry on to Ribadiso.
It doesn´t get daylight till 8.30 so we do end up walking in the dark first thing.
Buen Camino
Sue
It is strange starting at the end but I´ve been using small albergues which I would really recommend to anyonee doing a short stretch, they are really much friendlier places. I would also recommend carrying some kind of cooking utensil if you are walking in Galicia, it´s astonishing the friends you make when you have the only pan
I spent the first night outside Sarria (somewhere beginning with B that I want to call Beldorado but know that it isn´t). The municipal was already full at 4.30 but there is a private Albergue. Only drawback was that the bathroom facilities are a small shower room with wash basin and loo together, this for 12 people! There is not much in the village but it meant that there was a nice friendly atmosphere.
2nd night Gonzar - albergue fine, not much privacy in the bathroom but they are unisex. It was also full but not till later. Full of French and Spanish. There were no shops but there is a bar right next door and it opens at 7.30 am
Last night Casanova, nice little albergue, no bar, no shop and no equipment in the kitchen, my pan was very useful! We also learnt that you can cook chestnuts in a pan of water! Last night 10 of us of whom 6 were German.
Now I´m in Melide, weather foggy but it has been lovely up to now and I suspect that the fog will clear as the day goes on. So I must go and buy some food for tonight and carry on to Ribadiso.
It doesn´t get daylight till 8.30 so we do end up walking in the dark first thing.
Buen Camino
Sue