7th June

7th June
Vilela - Lourenza 21k

Well last night was hilarious.  We thought we were at Fawlty Towers.  It turns out our Albergue was also run by the bar/restaurant.  This was almost the only building in town and no where else to go so we were stuck there.  The bar owner finally processed the 16 of us who were getting cold and hungry into the albergue that could have done with a good clean.  Then we waited until 8pm to order dinner.  That's how it is in Spain and this part of the Camino is not so 'pilgrim' friendly so that's when dinner so we have to like it or lump it.

We went through to the dining room which was quite pleasant in comparison to the rest of the place.  Our waiter ran around in and out if a flapping door dumping plates in front of us taking orders and rushing back to the kitchen yelling frantic orders.  It was very funny.   Our food once delivered in a flurry of activity was actually quite nice.  We then hurried back to the Albergue that was behind the bar to go to sleep. 

We woke and put our things away before starting out on a nice cool day.  We're in the mountains now so we did quite a few climbs.  There were no bars to stop  at along the way so we had breakfast in a little grotty park and a bit later some snacks by a graveyard.  After about 14k we found a bar and had the best coffee we've had in ages.  It was our first for the day and it was lunch time so of course it was good.  We had a nice bacon baguette (bocadillo) before heading off for the last push to where we are tonight.  It's clean, we've showered and I've fumigated everything so things are looking up.  I should say that our walk today was lovely even with all the climbing and lack of bars. We had some lovely views when we weren't in the forest, a eucalyptus forest actually, but that's another story. Jon joined us again today which was lovely and our German friend Biata has just arrived.  We'll find the others later and we'll see what happens tonight. 

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