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El Camino de Santiago · Part II · Day 27 📅 October 28, 2013 · Dispatch 32 of 38

Portomarin to Palas de Rei – 27 km/16.3 miles

Stage Route Portomarín → Palas de Rei
Stage Distance 27.0 km (16.3 mi)
Cumulative Logged Walk 646.5 km (398.8 mi)
Region Galicia
St-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Pyrenees) Camino Progress: 97% Santiago de Compostela & Finisterre

Que pasa! We met a lovely lady, 71 year old Mary from Silver City, New Mexico in the Albergue yesterday. She has been layed up for five days because of her knee, but will be able to continue tomorrow, some of it with bus and we should see her in Santiago again. Anyhow, we really loved talking with her. The majority of people on the trail now are the Spanish doing their yearly thing. Traffic has increased greatly and I can not imagine doing it in July and August from Sarria on to Santiago. Life in the Albergues is quite calm……no more naked people….he…he…he.

A cloudy, cool day today. It rained during the night, so everything was pretty wet. The vistas are now less exciting and we walk mostly next to the road.

Palas de Rei – pop. 4200 and once home to a kings palace has little left to remind of it’s colorful past.

Only three more walking days to Santiago…Yeah!

📸 Stage Photographs (8)

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Beauty of the Forrest
🔍 Beauty of the Forrest
The view today
🔍 The view today
He is doing his job guarding – this is how cows should live
🔍 He is doing his job guarding – this is how cows should live
Look what comes down the road
🔍 Look what comes down the road
He has to work hard
🔍 He has to work hard
One step at a time….
🔍 One step at a time….
Farm house
🔍 Farm house
Town Hall of Palas de Rei
🔍 Town Hall of Palas de Rei

🗺️ Waypoint Location: Palas de Rei (Galicia)

💌 Trail Notes from Family & Friends (2)

Jan Larrow October 29, 2013 at 09:16 AM

Are you going all the way to the sea?

VitaPilgrim Author October 29, 2013 at 03:36 PM

Not enough time, takes 3 more days of walking. Once in Santiago we’ll take the bus to Finesterre…have to be in Madrid on the 4th…flying out early on the 5th. I can live with just walking to Santiago 🙂