We left our nice hotel in Ambas Mestas (complete with balcony) and we climbed up all day. This was equal to the highest climb we have made all of the trip but it seemed easy - we must have got a lot fitter.
O'Cebreiro was quaint and the 9th century church was nice but we didn't find the locals too friendly - the rooms and dinners were "take it or leave it" and due to being on top of a mountain we didn't have a lot of choice..............
After a night on the world's most uncomfortable bed, we descended back to "regular" level today and passed through a lot of farmland, very similar to Cornwall.
Tonight we are staying in a small town called Triacastela - named for three castles that are no longer here. Tomorrow we will travel to Sarria and we expect to have a lot more people join the Camino - Sarria is about 100km from the end point in Santiago and to get the special "compostelle" (certificate) the pilgrim only needs to do 100km..................
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| The motorway flyover above our hotel! |
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| As we leave Ambas Mestas we see a castle on a nearby hill. |
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| Flyovers connect many of the hills. |
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| In Ruitelan we could have hired horses to take us up to O'Cebreiro. |
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| Taking a cow for a walk! |
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| and up we go! |
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| We're still going up! |
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| The sign is right - O'Cebreiro is straight up! |
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| Many people live in flats above their animals barns. |
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| Still going up! |
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| We thought we'd better take pictures of us to prove we really did it! |
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| We leave the province of Leon. |
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| We are now in Galicia. |
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| We arrive in O'Cebreiro. |
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| The oldest church on the Camino - parts of it are from 800's. |
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| The original pilgrims hostel. |
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| St Francis of Assisi passed through here on his Camino 800 years ago! |
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| They had a collection of Bibles in different languages. This one is in Hindi. |
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| This one is in Arabic! |
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| This is Don Elias Valina Sampedro. It was his idea to mark the route of the Camino with yellow arrows! |
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| O'Cebreiro from above. |
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| There is a hill behind the village with a cross on top. As we hadn't done enough climbing today we climbed it! |
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| Coins pushed into the base of the cross. |
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| Yes we climbed this hill just because we could! |
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| Wednesday morning. Floating islands in the clouds in the valleys below us. |
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| A new idea to protect your wood pile from the rain? |
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| and now we are going down! |
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| Still going down but this part of the path is the original ancient pilgrim route. |
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| An 800 year old tree. |
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