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Starting to Stretch out the Kilometres - 30k
This was by far our favourite part of the journey. Not only did we meet some Peregrinos en route but the walking, despite being the longest distance, did not seem as difficult. Jean-Pierre, a French Pilgrim we met briefly in Betanzos and would meet at the Albergue later that day, explained that as we put the mileage through our bodies that they adapt accordingly and we begin to feel stronger.
Craig and I put it down to the fact that we didn't have a hangover for the ...
Along the Way with Paul from Iowa - 20k
... Paula Rey, lead singer of Luar na Lubre. Knowing that he was going to the town, and being a big swim fan, he had entered a swim race which he had thoroughly enjoyed...Speedos and all. He'd slept under a tree with a bottle of Galician white wine (I like him already) and he had decided to go for a walk before stumbling across a waymark for the Camino Ingles. He stated that the Camino had found him and I really hope that one day he will get ...
From one Fiesta to the next in Pontedeume...24 Kms
... and Pepe was great craic and I would advise you to listen to one of the most popular Galician Bands called 'Luar na Lubre'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_itiar9e _7s&feature=share&list=UUXns7KQ gweqfChrnD1xviVA
Their music and its Celtic influence reminded us of home (we'd only been away one day) and we stumbled home around 3.30am to see if ...
Bored in Galicia
... much drive up to the front door, but now it was a nice walk up to the front door.
We paid, we entered.
To be honest, I didn't really remember the underneath, nor the climb up, and as for the view, well, there was none !!! So we snapped away before we came back down.
By the time we hit the ground, it was ******* down with rain, so we grabbed a cab, and headed back to the train station, the body was now gone, so we jumped on a train and headed back to Santiago
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Captains log continued final entry.
The next morning we didn't get up until 0930hr and contacted Jilly to let her know that we would soon be on our way and after some work on sorting the lazy jacks and refueling we set off at 1145. We then had a fair sail along the coast into La Coruna where Jilly was waiting with a tale of her own about her travels across half of Europe. Reunited we ...