🐚 Vita’s World · Viewing Reinvented 2026 Pilgrim’s Edition Day 23: O’Cebreiro
Site Version:
🏛️ Classic 2013 Site ✨ Reinvented Edition
Vita's Camino Shell

Vita’s World

“You can do anything, but not everything” · The Camino de Santiago & Beyond
Full resolution trail photo
← Back to Full Trail Map & All 38 Dispatches
Text Size:
El Camino de Santiago · Part II · Day 23 📅 October 24, 2013 · Dispatch 28 of 38

Trabadelo to O’Cebreiro – 23.6 km/14.3 miles

Stage Route Trabadelo → O’Cebreiro
Stage Distance 23.6 km (14.3 mi)
Cumulative Logged Walk 553.2 km (341.3 mi)
Region Galician Mountains (1,300m)
St-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Pyrenees) Camino Progress: 83% Santiago de Compostela & Finisterre

Hello again! Celebration! The last tough mountain on the way is conquered and we are at 96.4 miles to Santiago. Yeah!!! What a day it was…no luck with the weather. The light rain at the start progressively became worse and worse with wind joining in towards the top of the mountain. The, at times very steep trail with rocks and mud turned into a little stream flowing downhill. Our shoes became swimming pools and everything on us totally drenched. We definitely paid penance today.

To top it off, Charlie who has not slept well since we arrived in Spain, woke this morning with bedbug bites. O yes, that’s what they are. Now we are in the process of hot washing and spraying our sleeping bags and all cloth etc. What did I say……PENANCE!

📸 Stage Photographs (7)

Click any photograph to open the full-resolution lightbox viewer.

Starting out in light rain
🔍 Starting out in light rain
The next village – Vega de Valcarce
🔍 The next village – Vega de Valcarce
The trail starting up
🔍 The trail starting up
Entering Galicia now
🔍 Entering Galicia now
This is the way we climbed up – it cleared up after we got settled in
🔍 This is the way we climbed up – it cleared up after we got settled in
O’Cebreiro – Iglesia de Santa Maria la Real from the 9th century and the earliest surviving building on the Camino
🔍 O’Cebreiro – Iglesia de Santa Maria la Real from the 9th century and the earliest surviving building on the Camino
O’Cebreiro – home of Don Elias Valina Sampedro (1929 – 1989) the parish priest who restored and preserved the integrity of the Camino, it was his idea to mark the route with yellow arrows. He is buried in the church.
🔍 O’Cebreiro – home of Don Elias Valina Sampedro (1929 – 1989) the parish priest who restored and preserved the integrity of the Camino, it was his idea to mark the route with yellow arrows. He is buried in the church.

🗺️ Waypoint Location: O’Cebreiro (Galician Mountains (1,300m))

💌 Trail Notes from Family & Friends (1)

Ute October 24, 2013 at 09:16 PM

choice between bed bugs and rain…..I’ll take the RAIN. sure hope that this will be the worst of your penance. The terrain, buildings make it appear as if you stepped back in time.