Very late out of the blocks today! 9am breakfast, in the car by 9:30am and then back with our packs on heading out of Sobrado dos Monxes by just before 10am. It was really weird going over some of the road we had walked the day before in the car – it just zooms by! We missed most of the other walkers by being so late getting started but caught a few at As Corredoiras, where we stopped for coffee. We had to share the road with some bovine walkers again today though, and later in the day a few free rangers! Unfortunately we came across a young Irish guy just out of Corredoiras who had broken a couple of toes (stress fractures?) – a very nice Spanish lady was going to take him to see a medico, hopefully he can do something to get him through the last 50kms!
We had mostly shaded, off road tracks through fairly gentle rolling hills up until lunch, at Boimorto. After that, though, we gradually transitioned to more roads as the temperature climbed to 31C – the hottest day so far and more to come. Finished off with a nice steep climb into Arzua just after 4pm!
We’ve now joined the Camino Frances but yet to experience the inundation of walkers – perhaps tomorrow! 22 kms today and 784km so far in total!
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