Portomarin to Eirexe

Most of the morning was spent catching up with, being overtaken by and re-catching a group of Irish Secondary Schoolgirls and their minders. What energy they had compared to the old and the unfit. The second feature of the day apart from the climb to 750 m was the bizarre weather. Clouds we had them, rain, we had that, sleet we greeted that a couple of times; sunny spells tick, driving snow too... fog was about the only weather we didn't get today. So we were rather damp when got to the Xunta Albergue at Eirexe.

Nikki did valiantly despite her "not being built for hills of any description", has joined the blister club and wanted to go home a few times but that is all part of the "normalisation" to Camino life. She has apologised for slowing me down, which she has, but this is now about getting two of us to the finishing line, so it really doesn't matter - but we do have to crack on.

Just the two pictures today for you blog followers...


The first of one of snow showers at lunchtime, the second of a lovely prayer cross along the way, showing the sunshine...

Keep on praying we still have a decent trek ahead. Good to hear earlier that someone I started out from St Jean Pied a Port with back on the 12th February is safely in Santiago de Compostella. Good to chat another couple from Perth, Australia today over lunch. The Camino - making the world smaller one step at a time.

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