Pilgrim statue at dawn
Misty camino
Bar before Casanova
Bar at Leboreiro with Dutch pilgrims
Pilgrims with pilgrim cross
Church
Horreo: an antique dating from before the age of stone ones
Medieval bridge
Leaving Laboreiro
Bridge
Bar in Furelos
Melide: a town famed for its superb octopus cuisine; the bar Alongos II is a little to the right after the camino joins the main street
and we spent a very happy hour eating the most delicious dish of spicy octopus we ever tasted
Particularly because it was pouring with rain when we came out. Church in main street
Sopping wet pilgrims from South Africa and Germany; we were lucky that this hour of rain was all we had the whole of the week
Enterprising youngsters Luisa and Miguel selling shells
Giant eucalyptus
...with Johanna from Berlin hugging it
Bridge on the camino
Boente: church of Santiago and fountain
with a statue of Santiago peregrino
and also Santiago matamoros (the miraculous slayer of Moors)
T he kilometer stones have continued all this way - this is the first one in the province of A Coruna and we have only 44 km. to go!
The first field in A Coruna: a little later there was a huge Coke dispensing machine standing in a field gate beside the Camino with a sign saying "God does exist" - very strange
Flower
Map showing improvements to the Camino and the surrounding roads
The bar in Boente with the barmaid kindly posing next to the ubiquitous Estrella de Galicia beer dispenser
Path through eucalyptus
First view of Ribadiso do Baixo
Ribadiso do Baixo: Interior of refugio
This refugio consists of old buildings round a courtyard, with good facilities like hot water and a covered drying area.
and swimming in the stream
The cafe back up the hill which did an excellent meal
Ribadiso do Carretera: the cafe on the main road which did a good breakfast
Mist at dawn
Arzúa - wayside marker
Church and parish house
Arzúa - the new Galicia camino logo on a crossing
