Day 8: Casa Rural da Vila to Chantada — 19km
A foggy morning and a long stretch of road walking early on wasn’t the ideal way to start this celebrated stage. Luckily, it improved soon enough! When we reached Diomondi, the fog started to lift...
Those uninspiring first few uphill kilometres of asphalt out of Monforte are good to have behind, and you'll have relatively fresh legs for the giant slabs up out of Belestar! Will you stay in Chantada? Good eating options there..
We woke up to see a lot of mist on Mt Faro but by the time we arrived there it had cleared.
The uphill forest track was easy enough with lots of grass by the side for soft stepping
When we got to the Ermita just off the Camino and up on a lovely...
I have never taken that “forbidden route,” but remember that some forum members who had used it as a shortcut to Rodeiro got hopelessly lost on different small roads. Of course your GPS would eliminate that possibility.
It looks like the...
I saw them on the Invierno, too. After Monforte, I think betwen Moreda and Castrotane. Honestly, they were nothing to be frightened of. I was trying to get photographs, and they were doing everything they could to put distance between themselves...
One highlight for the current route for me was the Roman road downhill to Belesar, with apparently genuine Roman pavement, though I suspect it needed repairs over the millenia. For a while, I was walking in the past, through a forest and down a...
Good to know that it wasn't just me who thought that!
I was relieved to find out that it's much more pleasant when leaving Cass da Vila in the morning.
Wow. Such good luck to miss the deluge!
Beautiful cascade, beautiful photo. Alas I missed it.
You'll be mostly off asphalt at first tomorrow, and on it again until Diamondi. But then...
And a nice uphill for Wendy's legs!
Looking forward to...
Day 7: A Pobra do Brollón to Casa Rural da Vila — 25km
My favourite image of today’s stage came barely 10-15 minutes into it after we left A Pobra. I heard the sound of gushing water from the river to the left of the trail and a minuscule detour...
I used a serious hard boot, but I imagine it works for some and not others. I was also doing exercises and custom orthotics. I'm glad it's not so bad, It's so nice that it's gone for me.
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