Today’s been wet but otherwise uneventful.

As you can see from the image, lots of vines underneath a very wet sky.

As you can see from these two images, the dog, a poodle is tasked to carry his own food, something we discussed with Taliesin and Pero who turned us down flat.

There are still patches of what appears to be temperate rainforest

And today’s route took us along woodland paths for perhaps half the way. The remainder was on small tarmaced B roads. Unfortunately, though we’d taken the trouble to get up early, we were down having breakfast by 7:30, that served us naught as we found ourselves repeatedly caught between 50 peregrinos in front and other 50 behind. Stopping for 5 minutes simply ensured a fresh batch of 50 in front and behind. There appeared to be no break in the seemingly never ending stream of humanity. This manifested itself quite unpleasantly in huge queues at the bars for toilets and food and a sense of having no time to simply chill. On other Camino when peregrinos were few and far between there were periods of gentle solitude, time to look at the local flora and fauna or to chat quietly with another peregrino in an empty bar. This is now at the far, far opposite end of the scale, Snowdon on steroids.

Thankfully there are still Galician brassicas growing in the fields.

And whole walls of Japanese knotweed.

Plus the ubiquitous support buses. This one is Austrian though there were others dotted here and there.

Baneful clouds as we began to approach Padron. I’d hoped that they’d blow over without shedding their load of rain but no such luck and we were once more drenched as we entered Padron.

Also

Much, much nicer

Finally, the sort of careless cruelty that is seen so often here.

Yesterday, we passed two horses who were tethered tightly in an otherwise empty field. Shortly afterwards we were hit by a torrential downpour accompanied by hailstones for 20 minutes. Pity the poor beasts, completely unprotected 😞.

We’re staying tonight in Casa Maia, roughly 1.5km closer to Santiago than is Padron where we stayed last time. There’s little to no chance of an evening meal so we ate briefly in a bar off the Camino a little earlier. Our stomachs are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the food available here. Long live lentils which thankfully we managed to find a small bowl of earlier.

Buen camino