Today was our last 30km+ walk and we won't miss them. We were on the road at 7am - in Portugal that would have been bright but we lost an hour in crossing the border into Spain. So, we had to find our way by torchlight for the first hour. We arrived at Redondela at 16.15, so it was a long day. We are staying at the Camino Albergue and it is fine.
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| 93km from Santiago |
Even before starting this trip, we had concerns about this stage. Various blogs had alerted us to problems with the route around Perrino. As I understand it, the route previously went through the industrial area south of the town. As this was both dangerous for the pilgrims and unattractive, a new route was selected to the west of the old one, bypassing the industrial area. Vested interests on the old route then started to sabotage the waymarking on the new route, and added their own yellow arrows to direct clientele back to the old route. The result is a mess for the pilgrims. Our Albergue of last night had a series of photographs of the tampered junctions, with an indication of which way to go, so Fleur photographed them and they got us through. Without the photos, there were a number of areas where we could have gone wrong.
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| Machine that Mary has taken a fancy to |
Today we passed the psychological 100km to go mark. We have only four days to go and two of them are of 18km. I have picked up a blister - during the wet spell I couldn't maintain my daily routine - but Mary and Fleur are fine.
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