Norman's Blog: Miraz, Galicia

Miraz, Galicia

After a great breakfast cooked by our host, Terese, a taxi arrived to take us for a 20 minute journey back to Baamonde to restart our Camino. Just as we were dropped off, we met Don and Lisa. Lesley knew them but I had never seen them en route, but I had been introduced in a previous cafe. I had probably never seen tehm enroute as they weren't early starters and I was often walking by 8.30 except when breakfast was believeably late at 9am.

Don and Lisa stopped to buy water, so Lesley and I set off. I accompanied her out of town. Waymarkers can be hard to see and may not be so obvious or abundant in an urban environment with so many other distractions. I like the company and prefer to be lost with someone than by myself.

Once out of town, I wished her a Buen Camino and picked up the pace.

But I did stop to stand on the railway tracks to take a photo of the broad gauge railway.

El Camino follows the road until it peels off into the forest. There were forest tracks and rural roads with hardly any traffic. As usual, I passed several pilgrims, wishing them all a Buen CAmino, some that I recognised but from after about an hour and a half, I saw few if any pilgrims.

I walked through several villages according to the guide, but they were all small, with just a few scattered houses and several didn't even have a name sign either on the way in or on the way out with a diagonal red line through the name. But the scenery was a pleasant mixture of fields and forest...

...but little changed other than more fields and more forest.

I reached Mizar in time for lunch. I sat in the Alberque O Abrago and waited for the kitchen to open. A girl I had passed earlier walked in and booked a room n the hostal. Aother girl that I had passed several times and had first seen Casa de Goas in Abidan walked in and we greeted each other.

Lesley joined me for lunch and as we were waiting for our food to be served , Don and Lisa walked in. They too had a similar schedule to ours and were having two nights at a hotel and being taken back and forth between El Camino and their hotel by taxi.

Leslay and I were picked up by our host at 2.30pm and driven for 20 minutes to our lodgings for the night. It was a restored 19th century typical Galician style former farmhouse, set in its own grounds.