Stage 27 - From Sarria to Portomarín

Another dawn start	The camino goes much of the way on a farm track
	Wayside church
Shrine in mist	Flowers
Waymark	Camino running alongside the road into Sarria
Pavement waymark in Sarria	The bar at the top of the steps - a good place to meet your exhausted friends and they do a very good tortilla. The refugio is just along the street.
Street scene with castle at the end	Sarria: view looking back over the city
Sarria: church on outskirts of the town	Young volunteers repairing a bridge
Good shade on this section	Crossing a more modern camino
French pilgrims from Abbeville on a bridge	The church at Vilei
Barbedelo: dormitory in the refugio	Official rest area with water tank and fountain
Author with the new Galician symbol for the Camino
Bridge with pilgrim	Waymark
Mouzós where the camino crosses a road and there is a bar	Morgade: house
Vegetable gardens with horreo used for storing maize (corn-on-the-cob)	Morgade: ancient roofs
Morgade: the old stone hermitage where pilgrims traditionally left messages - but there were so many that it would be quite difficult to find one meant for you!	One of the few really stony paths on the camino
Landscape, rather more flat now	Excellent blackberries all along this section
First view of Ferreiros	Ferreiros: the refugio
Refugio interior with washroom at the far end	You need to have comfortable boots or shoes and you to go on several long walks before you start the camino.
Gemiah aged 7 from ~California who walked the whole 800 km of the camino	here with the dog Camino who "adopted" the family in Torres del Rio
Another early start	An old cart: one saw many of the old wheels, though few complete carts
Another horreo; they are built up off the ground to keep clear of snow.	Abundant stones for field boundaries
First view of Portomarín	Spanish boy of 7 walking from Sarria to Santiago
The new high level bridge into Portomarín	The old Portomarín has been flooded by a reservoir; this shows the old bridge and the new