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Camino Francés
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Stage 26 - From O Cebreiro to Sarria (by way of Samos) |
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 Pilgrim statue outside O Cebreiro |
 Vista of Galician uplands |
 Landscape |
 The church at Padornelo |
 Lugo cycling waymark |
 Flowers |
 Foxgloves |
 Another bovine traffic jam on the camino |
 Chapel |
 Start of a steep descent |
 Flowers |
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 The bar at Fonfría |
 Flowers |
 Agricultural landscape |
 Camino now downhill all the way |
 Distant mountains |
 Old roof in Biduedo |
 Welcome shade going down the mountain |
 The camino goes straight across the hairpins at the end of the descent |
 Excellent raspberries and redcurrants on sale in Filoval |
 Forested hills |
 Entrance to Triacastela |
 Shaded wooded camino along the floodplain of the Rio Oribio |
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 First view of the monastery of Samos |
 View from village hall with scallop shell railings |
 The front of the monastery at Samos |
 The refugio (pretty basic and quite crowded) |
 Medieval cloister |
 Second cloister |
 Wallpaintings by Celia Cortes - buxom angels |
 and laughing devils |
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