PORTOMARIN

6/12/19

Guess who’s grumpy, guess why.........correct

Kaz and I walking around Sarria in the evening

Tonight I’m taking a tablet to see if that helps. Kaz is a walking pharmacy thank goodness.

Saria last night was the pits, that town has more Albergues than any other on the way, and is the starting point for the 100 km club. 60 miles is the minimum you must do to be given a pilgrims Compostela, so hordes will start here to claim they have walked the Camino ,do you sense a little animosity.?
In Italy for one, if you apply for a job and your application says you have walked the Camino, you get moved up the list of applicants, but they don’t ask how far you actually walked.
In this region you get to see quite a few of the old grain lockers for corn storage, called Horreo,s

A Horreo

Galician granary

I had someone take this photo of me at the 100 km left stone, then I looked at it and wondered, just how hammered and knackered do you have to look, before you actually just keel over.

There is very little here that’s of interest, just a stopping point, but the walk out once you left the city was pleasant, if not challenging..I put in two hours before stopping for a breakfast of sorts..the route into Portomarín got pretty hairy at times but the rain that showed up earlier had gone I’m glad to say.

The town of Portomarín is really a product of the 60s, the original village was drowned when the dam was built to crest this huge water reservoir, but the church of San Pedro was taken down brick by brick and rebuilt in the new town square. We attended a concert in the church tonight of baroque  music from the 1600s, it was quite amazing.

The bridge built over the new dam

San Pedro in its new location

The church from across the valley as we approached

San Pedro church