8th June

8th June
Lourenza to Abadin 25k

Today Fuzz, Jon, Biata.and I set off after a meagre breakfast from our dodgy pension.  After a few nights of very dodgy albergues Fuzz and I had hoped a pension might be a bit of relief.  Jon and Biata thought the same and joined us but it was only slightly better than the previous nights so we were glad to get going this morning.

We climbed and climbed all day.  Early in the day we were joined by a young German girl named Layla.  She had been told it wasn't a good idea to travel through today alone and asked if she could join us.  We were happy to add another to our group of Camigos and so today our merry band of pilgrims became 5.

We climbed and then climbed some more.  Today was a challenge and I'm glad it was at this end of our trip and not the beginning as we're much fitter now and it was still a very tough day.  We walked  for a never ending 16k without any sign of a bar or barely a village.   The scenery was beautiful.  We're in the mountains now after having turned away from the coast a couple of days ago, heading inland now on our final push to Santiago roughly 140k to the Cathedral.  We were up in the clouds and they got thicker and harder to see through the higher we got.  At one stage we sat by the side of the the road and shared our food.  It was a fantastic picnic before we climbed on and on some more until we reached our pension which is very comfortable tonight.  The Camino  provides!.