19km. We started out in the dark with driving rain. There was quite a climb to start with on a very slippery country path. Most of today was on lovely country paths some very slippery because of the wet and debris from the overhanging trees that are now starting to shed their leaves.
The rain finally gave way to a very pleasant day as we continued along our wooded path to Sarria.
Sarria is now the starting place for modern day pilgrims as it is only required that you do 100km to Santiago to get your Compostella as opposted to one of the more traditional routes/distances. From here it should get quite busy with pilgrims and tourists all vying for accomodation and the already competive edge needed to aquire accomodation should from now on need to be more finely honed. Groups of people are pre booked and people we are talking to along the way who are only here for two weeks came with their accomodation pre booked for the duration of their trip. So today when we tried to book for tomorrow we found it hard to get accomodation so we decided that we should book for the rest of the trip. Fuzz became 'super man' of the booking world and took charge of the book and booked us through to Santiago where I have already got us booked for 3 nights until we go th the Uk. We are hoping that the bookings stick as we have found out that things can go astray. That just adds to the fun sometimes.
115km to go...or there abouts.
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