Mos -Pontevedra May 8, 2024

I thought I’d get a good sleep in a quiet corner of the albergue last night but a snoring Spanish woman and a constantly barking dog put paid to that.

Nevertheless I was off at 8am after a tostado con marmalada. My rusty Spanish is slowly creaking into action and I’m starting to have the conversations I couldn’t have in Portugal .

What’s interesting though is that instead of the Spanish ‘buenas días‘, you get a lot of ‘bom dia’ which is the local Gallego language, very similar to Portuguese.

As on other days, some of todays walking followed the route of a Roman road and I passed a surviving milestone.

Today was quite a hot day with temperatures around 28 and I drank a lot of water.

I had my first view of the sea for some weeks.

At the town of Redondela, the coastal variant of the Camino and the inland route that I took meet, the number of pilgrims jumped dramatically once again.

The route here is busy enough for a number of enterprising people to set up stalls at odd places along the way.

At the town of Arcade, there’s a fine medieval bridge.

There were lots of fish in the river.

This is one of the nicest hórreos, or grain stores, I’ve seen in a while.

It was such a beautiful day that I decided I had to have a picnic, so I stocked up at a supermarket and found a pleasant spot to sit.

It was a very pleasant day with interesting. It was fun to climb up what seemed to be the granite blocks of the Roman road with water cascading down them.

After a seven hour walk, I arrived at my destination of Pontevedra.

I’m staying at quite a new private hostel that includes washing and breakfast in the price of €27.

The church of Santa María la Mayor was commissioned by the Guild of Seaman in the 15th century. The facade is a little overgrown.

My Relive video for today .,.

https://www.relive.com/view/vxOQjW2Rr26