Saturday 17 March 2018

Ponferrada to Ruitelan

A decent shift, keeping up the options for a Thursday finish ... around 40km in sunshine and showers, mostly on tarmac, apart from the mid-morning stretch through the Bierzo vineyards to a very amicable coffee and tortilla stop in Cacabelos ... Luzia, happy to practise her English learned many years ago on Hereford ... Vilafranca briefly provides a rest stop and a reminder of the epic day with Robert, starting here and finishing in Triacastela ... on to lunch at Trabedelo and Jo appears, having stayed in Molinaseca and finishing here ... on to Ruitelan and the Pequeno Potala, with Madrileno brothers Pepe and Fernando ... both fluent in English ... Jose, from Barcelona arrives later and a good communal supper is served by Luis and Carlos who run the place ...

Tomorrow starts with the climb up to Galicia ... after that Sarria is the target, leaving a steady four days ... let's see ...

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