Paul Adams (commentary) and Katryn Adams (pictures)
A friendly cat at La Bodeguina in Mercadoiro. And the dormitory building where we slept. Many pilgrims stopped off here for a drink or meal. We stayed overnight. All the hostels we stayed at were clean and pleasant. We carried our sleeping bags on our backs, sleeping in bunks in rooms with ten or more peregrinos, male and female, always for ten euros or less. Usually there were private rooms available at double the price ($25 or $26), still a great deal. Fellow pilgrims we encountered were quiet and considerate. I had little use for the ear plugs with which I came well supplied.
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| We passed through many small old farm towns like this one |
And on to Portomarin, where the yellow arrows that were helpful almost everywhere on the Camino in this case pointed us into and out of town at the same time. Good for business but confusing for pilgrims!
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| Santa Maria de las Nieves in Portomarin |
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| El rio Mino |
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Misty morning at the Mino river across from Portomarin
Finally, a sunny day. Not too much of the Camino goes along beside with the highway like this, a bit more as we approached the outskirts of Santiago, but not too much. The markers directed to side paths and lanes that crisscrossed the highway whenever possible.
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Caterpillar train! How to make yourself look five times bigger.
My favorite hostel/inn was this one, run very efficiently by two young couples, with food from the family farm.
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Young Catholic volunteers from southern Spain provided free tea, coffee and use of toilets to pilgrims
One of several 17th century wayside crosses along the Camino
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| Symbols of St James on the street in Palas de Rei |
Most people walk the Camino, some do it on bicycle, and a few make the journey on horseback. If you go by bicycle or on horseback, you have to cover twice the minimum distance to qualify for a Compostela. Horses parked outside a bar in Palas de Rei
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No idea what this is
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