You will have gathered from the last two posts that I have been a bit fed up with some of the other walkers on the last 100km of the Camino - but that has now all changed as we have had the trail pretty much to ourselves.
We have surmised that most of the people walking the last 100km to Santiago are aiming to do it in a week and therefore start on a Sunday or Monday - hence why the trail was so packed with people when we left Sarria on Monday. Now of course thanks to our dodgy guidebook we are about half a day ahead of the crowd and once again have the Camino to ourselves and a few other hardy walkers.
Today I spent, just 10 minutes or so, walking with a lady from Taiwan who like us started in St Jean but unlike us has not left bits out. She was therefore on day 32 of her Camino, still plodding along day after day. It made me think of people we met crossing the Pyrenees who were expecting to arrive in Santiago in just over a month's time - they still have a long way to go.
Galicia continues to be Galicia - very different from the rest of Spain - this time because of the forest. Today we have walked through a lot of forest but this is no ordinary forest because the trees are eucalyptus. Apparently they were introduced into Spain and Portugal in the late 19th Century as they are fast growing and produce good timber.
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| Eucalyptus Forest |
At the end of the day we are now less than 20km from our destination
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| Could be Dartmoor or Exmoor? |
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| Some cows to make you go ahhhhhhh! |
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