Author: Charlie

We are still on the Portuguese Camino but yesterday we moved to the Spanish part of it. The two countries maintain the Camino in different ways. In Spain you see these posts a lot.

They always have the distance to Santiago on them. Here it is 151,560 kilometers. The Europeans use a decimal comma where we would use a period but more to the point: three places of accuracy? 151,561 would be one meter farther. Is that to the front door of the cathedral, or the alter, or the highest point on the roof? It just seems nutty to have this much accuracy. I wonder how the decision was made?

Also notice the little stones on top of the post (and a flower). We talked about the stones in an earlier post.

We see this a lot: a dual use walking and bicycle lane with. 10 km/hour bicycle speed limit. The pedestrian seems to be striding so purposefully.

Just the usual don’t do this and be careful about that except the text is Galician, which seems to be more like Portuguese than like Spanish.

• Camino walking: Villa Praia de Ancora to A Garda, 10.9 miles in 6:08 hours, moving 3:45.
• Elevations: up 135 feet, down 134 feet, it would have been much more if we had gone over the big hill from the ferry to A Garda but we took the long way around along the ocean, a pleasant walk and worth not climbing up and down the hill.
• Total walking: 11.69 miles
• We took a small boat across the ria from Portugal to Spain.
• Boardwalks: 20%

Sometimes a tree is in the way.

Sometimes they are fake.