Another early morning start to avoid the midday heat! The way today was mainly on roads except for the odd up and down goat tracks trying to shortcut bends! Initially we got very lost leaving Xunqueira and must have walked an extra couple of kilometres at least! Once we found our way we went through a myriad of little villages, most now looking much more prosperous than those in previous days. Closer to Ourense we went through the inevitable industrial parks, churning out their pollution in marked contrast to the beautiful scenes up on the mountain sides!
Tonight we stay in a beautiful Albergue, where we stayed five years ago, a converted former monastery. The temperature has been rising all day and now at 9:30pm is 25C degrees. Impossible to sleep. Tomorrow the high will be 32 and on Monday 36. Tomorrow 28th June, marks my 70th birthday and we have decided to take a rest day here in Ourense. We will be transferring from the Albergue into one of the top hotels here and we are looking forward to having air conditioning the most! Today I got an advance birthday present from Ana Maria. She did my washing for me! She knows that of all the things we do on the Camino, washing clothes as soon as we arrive anywhere is the one thing I really hate doing! Sometimes the simple pleasures in life are the best!
DAY 48 - REST DAY IN OURENSE AND MY 70th BIRTHDAY!
Our rest day in Ourense has been just that. A lot of rest a very very good lunch, the odd glass of wine and air-conditioned comfort. Tomorrow we are back in business and some 25 Kms await us! We hope to reach Santiago de Compostela in four days time and from there another four to Cape Finisterre.
As you can see from this late post, we have had problems posting our daily blogs. I hope to catch up with all those who have sent me greetings on my birthday but in the meantime many thanks to everyone for thinking of me today and thus making this a special day.
Glad you had such a lovely rest day Robert, you and Ana Maria are like the energizer bunnies, so a day to recharge those batteries was certainly well earned!!!!
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