The good news today is that we have a very short walk today, the bad news is that it is all uphill! Anyway we set off far too early and even taking our time and having a longish coffee stop we arrived in O’Cebrerio just after 9. We had a lovely encounter with a German lady who was one of the very few people we have met who is doing the Camino the ‘wrong’ way. She told us she had married late in life to a fisherman from Finesterre (shades of Shirley Valentine😀) who had unfortunately died a year or so ago and was walking from Finesterre to St Jean Pied de Port in his memory. O’Cebrerio is a beautiful old hill top village, just a bit lower than the top of Ben Nevis, with still many of the original circular thatched houses intact. It was actually fairly busy, and the first time we had encountered coach parties admiring the sights. We had something of a morning session catching up with various people as we sat outside in the sunshine. Then a long siesta before exploring the village before meeting Wolfgang and Germaine, and our fellow Scot Jim for dinner. Had a nightcap in our hostal before bed and the barmaid recognised the Mallorcan pattern on Susan’s bag. It turns out she worked for years in the Puro beach bar near Portixol and was very keen to return once things return to some kind of normality.
Camino 2022 