Author: Charlie

In case you had any questions. And another cute graphic.

• Camino walking Baiona to Nigrán: 8.1 miles in 4:36 hours, moving 2:46
• Elevation: up 100 feet, down 265 feet, not much up and down. 17 flights of stairs.
• Total walking: 8.99 miles
• Rain: off and on all day. Last night it poured most of the night. We were on the top floor of our pension and every time I woke up I heard it on the roof. It did rain a lot of the day but not as hard as it did last night.
• Boardwalks: maybe a mile
• Coffee stops: 2; grocery store stops: 2; restaurants: 1. We like to get fried eggs and toast but lots of bars don’t offer that. We ended up in a gastrobar and had a fancy bagel with scrambled eggs and hollandaise sauce and avocado toast with a poached egg and hollandaise sauce — both very good. And the coffee was good too.

• Camino walking: Viladesuso to Baiona, 8.8 miles in 4:28 hours, moving 3:24
• Elevation: up 719 feet, down 699 feet, we had to go over two pretty steep hills, one along a steep and rocky path where I was very glad I was not carrying a heavy pack.
• Total walking: 11.47 miles
• Flight of stairs per Wynette’s fitbit: 86
• Boardwalks: none
• Rain: off and on all along the hike, sometimes heavy, mostly light rain.
• We saw the biggest pile of Camino stones this side of the Cruz de Ferro.

Just slide it in, not sure what is on the other side, maybe a box.

(PS, if your Spanish is rusty, pan is the Spanish word for bread.)

• Camino walking: A Garda to Viladesuso, 10.8 miles in 5:34 hours, 4:04 moving
• Elevation: up 509 feet, down 587 feet, fairly hilly. Wynette’s watch says 46 flights of stairs climbed.
• Total walking: 11.42 miles
• Boardwalks: none
• Bags transported via Correos (Spanish mail): 1. We decided to try their backpack transport service. It worked very well. I was carrying about 10 pounds and Wynette didn’t have a pack at all.
• Buddha statues passed: 1
• It was Palm Sunday and we were worried about getting breakfast on the trail. But we found a place and got our usual eggs and toast.

Bread delivery to private homes is a thing in Spain.

We have seen this many times before but what we saw before was a baguette in a plastic bag hanging on a door knob or a fence. This is the first time we have seen a tube specifically for bread delivery.

Notice the inside of the coffee cup has the brand of coffee the bar uses. Sometimes the branding is on the outside or on the saucer. We see this all the time. I assume the coffee wholesaler gives them discounts on the cups and saucers.

Wynette likes her coffee milky and not too hot so she usually goes up and asks them to add some leche fria. Today they gave her a little pitcher of milk and it had branding on it.

We buy milk frequently for our in-hotel dinners and often get the Pascual milk.