Stage 23 : Cebreiro to Samos

Started the day at around 6:15am.  In an albergue a bunch of alarms go off at about 10 to 6, you then have a decision, go back to sleep of get going.  This morning I decided to get going.  Unfortunately that ment before the sun and in the rain.  So I started with sandals.  Quickly determined this wasn't working, feet were cold.  So on go the shoes.  This worked for a few hours but then my non water proof shoes started going squish, squash.  So I stopped at a bar, got a hot chocolate and egg sandwich.  There I put on dry socks, plastic bags, and then my wet socks, back in the sneakers.  Ofcourse after I was warm and all set I go outside and the rain had stopped.  Still felt better, it's suppose to rain tomorrow so we will see what I do in the morning.

Due to the rain pictures didn't really turn out early on.

One thing I remember the guys from Barcelona told me is about blisters.  A guy told them that blisters are things from your head that have worked their way down your body to your feet to get to the camino.  To do this they create blisters.  So the less blisters you have you would think the clearer in the head you are, no I guess that just means you have to walk more.  They said he guy seemed a little off.

Couple things to note in this picture.  You see the short wall on the left, well the thing covered in green on the right is he same.  A kind of retaining wall, huge one all stacked rocks.  Seems really old.

There were a lot of almost abandoned towns along they way.  It was thru this small river valley.  A beautiful walk.

One town had this unique sign posted.  Yup no dumping of any kind allowed.

The area reminds me of Portland.  Everything is covered in growth.

Check out this fish tail roof.  They are actually all over but is was a newly do me one so it stuck out more.

Tonight I'm staying at an albergue as part of a Monestary.  We took a tour, it's the biggest in Western Europe. There at 14 friars living here.  Seems like they have a lot of work to do. We went to mass and they did a bunch of chanting and had the organ going.  It was very nice, love the acoustics in the church.

This unique fountain in one of the courtyards of the Monestary.