106 km
The weather today was the reason, why this part of Spain is green and the old church towers are full of moose. About 4:00 AM there was a heavy rain. And at wakeup time there was still rain. I first had breakfast, but that didn’t improve the weather, so I packed all stuff and was careful to keep the dry parts dry. I started cycling and still the rain was heavy. The cycle track run through small villages again. In this area the meadows are enclosed by vertical flat stones. The churches were less impressive as yesterday, but I nigh have overseen details between the water drops on my glasses. In Vilalba was heavy rain again. I must have passed a castle, but I didn’t notice it.
At the Alto da Xesta the highest point today, The rain stopped and I had a short lunch break with a view to rotating windmills.
The bicycle track now runs exactly on the Camino through a green valley, that could have been in the Alps. Pilgrims from the normal direction had to climb this part. The main village in this valley is Mondoñedo with a cathedral, monastery and a bunch of albergues. In one of them a German woman was complaining about the dirt in the kitchen.
The cathedral was closed and I asked for a stamp in a café
Next village Villanova had again a large church and a monastery. The Camino did not come straight from the coast, but runs through a hill chain full of eucalyptus forests. In Ribadeo it finally is ath the Atlantic coast. Just some earlier I had a view to Castrapol in the bay of the Rio de Ribadeo.
Due to thick clouds it was rather dark and no sunset over water.
Paul
The weather today was the reason, why this part of Spain is green and the old church towers are full of moose. About 4:00 AM there was a heavy rain. And at wakeup time there was still rain. I first had breakfast, but that didn’t improve the weather, so I packed all stuff and was careful to keep the dry parts dry. I started cycling and still the rain was heavy. The cycle track run through small villages again. In this area the meadows are enclosed by vertical flat stones. The churches were less impressive as yesterday, but I nigh have overseen details between the water drops on my glasses. In Vilalba was heavy rain again. I must have passed a castle, but I didn’t notice it.
At the Alto da Xesta the highest point today, The rain stopped and I had a short lunch break with a view to rotating windmills.
The bicycle track now runs exactly on the Camino through a green valley, that could have been in the Alps. Pilgrims from the normal direction had to climb this part. The main village in this valley is Mondoñedo with a cathedral, monastery and a bunch of albergues. In one of them a German woman was complaining about the dirt in the kitchen.
The cathedral was closed and I asked for a stamp in a café
Next village Villanova had again a large church and a monastery. The Camino did not come straight from the coast, but runs through a hill chain full of eucalyptus forests. In Ribadeo it finally is ath the Atlantic coast. Just some earlier I had a view to Castrapol in the bay of the Rio de Ribadeo.
Due to thick clouds it was rather dark and no sunset over water.
Paul
