We were on the road to Arzua before 8am, there didn't seem to be as many people around as the previous day, so it was a little more like the mornings before we reached Sarria. It was still cool and we ticked off our first 8km by 10am before stopping for some coffee and Santiago cake. It's easy to justify eating cake everyday when you are walking more than 20km.
Our lunch stop was at the 15km halfway mark in Melide, the biggest city we have seen for quite a while. After a leisurely lunch we resumed along with lots of other walkers who'd also picked Melide for their lunch stop.
Over the last couple of days we had run into groups of quite poorly behaved Irish teenage boys on a school trip who had started in Sarria. In general their language was quite foul and as we encountered them once again on the road into Arzua K decided she'd had enough, so she turned around and told them off for their language. They were momentarily stunned into silence but didn't offer an apology, they seemed to have missed the memo that this was a religious pilgrim walk.
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| Virgin Mary and friend |
There weren't as many hills today but one in particular was quite brutal so after 28km we were glad to walk into Arzua even though it was raining. At the first bar we walked past were two American girls we had run into a few times so we sat down and had a drink with them and discovered we were staying at the same albergue.
Our albergue had a lovely modern bathroom but unfortunately the shower was on an annoying 30 second timer ... not the sort of thing ed had expected for our €55! In general we'd found that Camino prices for accommodation were quite a bit higher than equivalent places off the Camino ... the price you pay for being completely unoriginal and doing the same things in the same order on the same route at the same time as a thousand other people!
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