An early morning start to try and and avoid the heat expected to reach 40C degrees today! Last night from the terrace of our Albergue we could see thick smoke from a large fire that appeared to be a little bit too close for comfort!
After a brief visit to a local bakery where they were making the famous CEA bread, and a 6:00am breakfast of coffee and oily toast we set off for Lalin, our destination for the day. We walked mainly on some major and some minor roads passing through some interesting villages. One in particular, Piñor, caught my eye. It has more than twelve companies making coffins. Surely this must be the coffin capital of Spain! Very macabre!
After 17 Kms or so we reached Castro do Dozon. By this time the temperature had reached 38 degrees and we still had another 17 Kms or so to go! We took refuge in a local bar where a number of fellow walkers had gathered to cool down and decide what to do next. There we met Pepe, Antonia and Carlos who own the La Reja Restaurant in Jimena de la Frontera, not far from Gibraltar. After a lot of deliberation we decided it was potentially dangerous for us oldies to continue walking in the extreme heat. We therefor waited a few hours for a bus which took us to Lalin in about 12 minutes! Pepe and Co. Decided to go a bit further to Laxe.
When we arrived in Lalin, Francisco, a Spanish gentleman who had been on the bus with us, offered to show us to a local hotel. Francisco turned out to be a teacher at a local Institute teaching accounting and maths. He seemed to be a very nice man and we chatted all the way to the hotel. Along the way he pointed out a monument to Joaquín Lóriga Taboada, a famous Spanish airman, who in 1926 had been the first to fly from Madrid to the Philippines, only to due the following year in an aircraft accident.
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