Day 27 - Cacabelos

Walked back into town to put the feet in the river. Plenty of the locals sitting by the river sunning themselves. All very civilised. Met the other punters for a pilgrim´s meal at 7 pm. There was a Norwegian couple there, both of whom looked very fit. The woman is 71 and looks 20 years younger. Marcus was flabergasted as he was knackered after a tough day and he was 30 years younger than her. Maybe he won´t feel as bad when he is a few more days off the smokes. There was a young girl from Paraguay that Frank asked to join us for dinner. She was 21 and studying her hast year in psycology. She lost her wallet and passport a few weeks back so she is not able to leave the country just yet. Headed off this morning without breakfast and had a few stops along the way. The walk wasn´t much to write home about after the spectacular scenery of the day before. The expectations have been set very high now. Pulled into an interesting Albergue that is a series of 35 box rooms, each with 2 single beds, all rooms running around an old church in a semi-circle. There was a nice common area where you can sit out under the shade and watch all the pilgrims shuffle past with there towels and sore muscles to the showers. Shuffeled into town ourselves and had a great pilgrim´s meal of aubergine lasange which had plenty of meat in it. Tony is a vegetarian and he is struggling to find anything to eat other thant the Spanish potato omlette. There was a chap there from Fermoy who is doing the Camino. I might catch up with him again in Santiago to watch Leinster play in the rugby final. The evening was fierce close as they say in Marymount and I was expecting it to break with a thunderstorm. We had the thunder but no rain.