Tuesday 5th May
Julie
We ate early and reluctantly left the comforts of the Paradores. It was a 750 metre walk just to get out onto the road to join the Camino. We began our walk around the bay in the rain with our ponchos on. The walk was flat with stones, dirt and some boardwalks. We stopped for morning tea at about 10.30 and the Paradores was so huge that we could still see it. We passed through villages, had an ice-cream at a skate cafe, detoured onto the beach at one point and tackled some steep stairs and hills. Lunch was in the shade in a secluded bay and by that stage the rain had stopped again and the ponchos were off. Then… walking again for a couple of hours.🤨We caught a cafe just before it closed for siesta for a quick cup of tea. Sometimes that’s enough to keep you going for another hour. We reached the outskirts of Vigo and decided to eat as we knew that if we didn’t then we would probably not go out again. We had walked 22 km by this stage and Kim was exhausted. She decided to catch a taxi and Louise, Ali and I kept walking the remaining 4km to our hotel. I’m not sure why but it feels like they throw in hills at the end of the day just to make it difficult. Those last 3km took forever. Today ended up being our longest day. By the time we reached our hotel I was exhausted. I went through the nightly routine of washing out socks and undies and then trying to find somewhere in the room for them to dry. It’s often over bedposts, on hangers from drawers or from a curtain rail, wherever you can find. The hotel in Vigo was lovely but I didn’t get to enjoy it. I got in my pyjamas, read a chapter of my book, curled up and went straight to sleep.💤
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