Saturday 13 October 2012

Abadin to Baamonde - 40km

Abadin to Baamonde about 40km




A bit of a noisy night as we had the French snoring champion with us again!  Hopefully, by walking 40km today we will have left him behind. Otherwise, some of today's walk was occupied by working out strategies to stop him. We did consider the simple act of throwing water over him as just waking him up did not work. But we thought this was a little crude. We therefore devised a method to apply a cup full of body temperature water to between his legs. We thought this would both wake him up and occupy him for a little while.  This may sound extreme but it was a lot more humane than some of the solutions offered by other people last night! The nights are also invariably disturbed a little by the mosquitoes. In fact you can determine their flight path through the room by the individual slaps as people try to kill them. A surprisingly good walk today despite the distance.  It was cold this morning, probably only about 4 degs and it was misty. Decided to stay on the road for the first 20kms or so as it was more direct and there was very little traffic around - probably owing to last nights fiesta. Got to Vilalba just before 1130 and this included a coffee stop. Took the opportunity for a coffee and a piece of tortilla and then headed back out.  We did have a couple of pieces of pumpkin pie left over from last night to keep us going. Got to our destination without incident just before 1600 and at least the sun put in an appearance this afternoon and it was a pleasant walk through dappled shade. For some strange reason the horres have been getting smaller and smaller and the one in today's photo was more like a Wendy house.  Fortunately, tomorrow is a short day as the forecast is for 13 degs and showers! Today's AdP is ok and there is a restaurant nearby for a meal. Tomorrows AdP has no food and no shops so we have bought some things to take with us for lunch and dinner. Baamonde is famous for its old church and a carving of Mary inside a very old chestnut tree - see photos. Off to Miraz tomorrow which is only about 16km but it is there or another 25km further on to the next place with accommodation that we know about.  

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