Day: April 27, 2025

WynChar Diary, April 27

  • A rest day in Lugo. Charlie walked the Roman wall again. Wynette walked around the old town. We walked to lunch. I ended up walking 4.2 miles. Per Wynette’s watch we walked 5.4 miles today.
  • 21 flights of stairs. Lugo is a little hilly. Most of that was coming back from the laundry.
  • I like walking on top of the wall. I would walk it 3-4 times around every day if I were staying here instead of Vigo where we will stay a week soon.
  • If you use swipe keyboard typing, as I do, and you try to type “wall walk” you get “walk walk”. Not a problem for Wynette who uses speech input all the time. I really should change to that. But then we’ll both be talking to our phones. Also it seems funny in a crowded bar, where we are now, but W has her Bluetooth keyboard.
  • There is a mother and two kids next to us. They are a bit loud but we like to hear children. In the square just outside there is a large playground with dozens of kids running around and yelling. Last night, after blogging in the same bar, we watched them for 45 minutes. We’ll probably do the same tonight.
  • We had lunch at a Japanese restaurant in the cheaper part of town with the menu del dia for the amazing price of 10.80€, $12.32, each. It was pretty good but we’ve had better. We’ll be having Spanish food for the next three days, our last three days on the Camino Primitivo.
First course at Japanese restaurant served on slate. This was after an “entrante” and some tapas that came with our drink, which was water.

Photos from today in Lugo

Lugo wall from the outside. It completely surrounds the old town (population 3000, about 100 acres in size.) Total Lugo population 100,000. Was built in 3rd century AD to protect the Roman town then named Lucus.
Street scene inside the old town. Some magnificent buildings.
Street in front of our hotel. (Hotel ALBA Lugo)
Charlie in the wall window
This is our third time to spend time in Cafe Celta in the Lugo old town. They are open every day from 7 am to very late. Always busy. Three times as much seating outside on the plaza next to the kid’s playground. It’s been a great place to come for breakfast and tapas and to blog. We’ll be back for breakfast tomorrow morning and then head out on the Camino.
Outside seating for Cafe Celta. These are 95% locals I’m sure. In all these Spanish towns, the community gathers in the evening.

Photos

Lugo Roman wall
Lugo Roman wall
A Roman watching over the wall
This Roman is not impressed by the wall.

Kids at the bar from a few days ago. They were running around also and we enjoyed their energy. The older boy at the table, maybe 12, is spending his energy on his phone. You can see we were using the old trick of pretending to take a photo of Wynette while really taking a photo of the family with the kids, something we would not do directly.

Today was laundry day. They had five washers and four dryers for people clothes and a washer and a dryer for dog clothes. We have seen this a few times before, with signs saying not to wash pet things in the people clothes machines. There was a strongly worded sign:

I assume that the horse prohibition was a slight possibility and the other three are humorous.

This is a photo of an old church from a few days ago. We have not encountered the cross with a little circular window before. This is, no doubt, because of our lack of experience with churches. Maybe some helpful reader can enlighten us about this architectural feature in Christian churches? It was repeated along the side of the church. This photo is of the back.

Photos from yesterday, April 26

I ran out of time and energy last night to post photos from yesterday but did have a few I’d like to share so will do so now.

We had a rest day in Lugo today. So great to have time and energy tonight! Now, if only the internet will cooperate. It’s slow right now.

Yesterday in Castroverde, we had breakfast in our hotel bar. They didn’t have eggs but offered us toast with ham and cheese and tomato. This is the jamón that the Spanish are so proud of. They slice it thinly. But we couldn’t believe how generous these were. We were only able to eat half of what they served us. The whole bill was 9 euros. They gave us the coffee on the house because we were guests at the hotel. We brought the left-over ham and cheese with us. Plan to have it tonight for our dinner with leftover naan from our Indian food feast from yesterday.
This is our server slicing the ham for our breakfast.
We saw quite a few pilgrims yesterday on the way. We think the group of four ahead here were pilgrims, two parents walking with their children. Might have been locals, but they somehow had the appearance of pilgrims who were doing pack transfer and only carrying small packs.
We have a great view of the Lugo wall (Roman, built around 3rd century AD) from our 4th floor hotel room window. We see people walking by all the time. I did use a zoom for this photo. We saw this just minutes after we checked in. I know, I probably should not have snapped this photo. But … could you resist?
Here I did not use the zoom.