Day 7 walking

 MOUGAS TO VIGO

I hate this friggin guide book, I should write the publisher and threaten them with a wear and tear suit on my legs, today we got so misled that we ended up doing a 20 mile or so hike , over 9.5 hours. But first 

It’s one of my best friends birthdays today, happy birthday Dave Petry, 65, a great guy and a classy act, keep your pecker up lad, another great year ahead.

Now,,,,back to “ it’s all about me”

The Estella Islands off shore early this damp morning

Starting to turn inland now

This damned book couldn’t make sense out of a donkey refusing to take lessons in Italian.

We started along the coast but soon started to move inland, this we expected because we soon going to intersect with the inland route of the Camino.

 The book says it 17 klm to Vigo, or 10 miles. 20 miles later I have a girlfriend who doesn’t like me too much right now, a bad attitude, and a desire to write a guide book of my own.

We walked the coast and could see the Estella’s islands, just off the coast as we turned to go up the estuary towards Redndela. Redondela is where the coastal route meets the inland trail, and this is where the world changes somewhat. The coastal has been fun and flat, today we started to get a taste of what’s to come, hills.

Medieval bridge crossing


The fort coming into Vigo

 Poor MB had a challenge today as she met her first hill that wouldn’t stop, welcome to the Camino dear. 

I was struggling a bit as before this trip I went to the Orthol he said “ go ahead and do what you want, your knees are so screwed that you can’t hurt them any worse”, never been an issue till now, actually till this trip.

 My right one has had a thing since Porto, but the left one absolutely didn’t like the hills today.

 Anyway, we got through the cities ( which is what this portion of the walk seems like),and followed the trail through high forest, steep uphills, and slippery down gradients, without falling. We passed the exact marker for the 100 klm mark left to Santiago, and started to look for a bed for the night.


One of the interesting things on the way today, was a wash center that was a few hundred years old. This is where the town folk would come to wash clothing as a community
Communal laundry station from centuries back, we se quite a few along the way in Spain


Some of the path today

The coast route has been fun, but flat, and that has made us lazy, today was a wake up call and life is about to get more challenging.

 After tomorrow, we are joined with the inland hikers , the part of the central route which I’ve done before, it will be more social, mote interesting, and a bit tougher., but more interesting too.     MB has not had to sleep 8n her first “albergue” yet (hostel )

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