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Saturday 3rd May 2025

The lady in the Tourist Information Office yesterday appeared to find tedium in her job, and seemed to sum us up on approaching her counter, having been summoned by our ticket number, as lunatics. She upgraded this opinion fairly soon after launching into our conversation to 'old lunatics'. We wanted to participate in walking a section of the Camino, and then catching a bus back to the Compostela. This, I think, reinforced her initial diagnosis. So do you want to go on the Camino? Yes. But you want to come back? Yes. Crazy. We only have one day, we said. OK, how far do you want to walk? About 13 miles we said. This raised our lunatic score again. How far is that in kilometres? About 22 we said. OK, she said somehow doubting anyone of our age could ever manage to walk that far. I suggest that you walk to Negreira then. It is 22 km. And we can catch the bus back? She rolled her eyes. Yes. What number we asked, expecting a catch. She started scribbling on a map. You start here, you walk along here. No you won't need a map, it is sign posted all the way. Take plenty of food and water. When you get to Negreira, you catch the Monbus back and it pulls into the station here, she said as she drew many concentric rings around the railway station. With that, we were dismissed. Oh, where do you come from? England, I said. UK, Martine said. She made a note, presumably as an aide-memoire, not to ever speak to any English people ever again.

So bright and early this morning, there we were in the plaza in front of the Cathedral de Compostela with many fellow Caminos. Our chosen Camino would ultimately take us to Fisterra if we kept on walking for 3 or 4 days. We would just do day 1 to Negreira. You would have thought that there would have been a start sign somewhere that would point us in the general direction, especially as our expert said we wouldn't need a map. Well, there wasn't, but from her scribbly map we could work out how to start this thing before falling off the map some half a mile later. And low and behold, there was the first sign post just on the very edge of oblivion. The route thereon was fantastic. The surface of the path well made. At every junction, there was a clear direction for the Camino. We soon learned the Camino etiquette with fellow travellers. There were quite a few, and on meeting one, it was polite to greet them with, 'Buen Camino', or Good Path. We might also say 'Hola,' Hello, if the feeling took us.

Our Camino took us through lovely countryside, many beautiful villages, passing green fields and through forest. Old stone bridges crossed the fast flowing Tambre river. Then, almost too soon, we stumbled into Negreira and found a cafe next to the bus stop. This was a natural break for most of our fellow Caminos, and there are many small albergue hotels where a room can be had for the night at little cost. We had a welcome coffee and then sneaked onto the 16.00 bus back to Santiago de Compostela, mindful of other Caminos who earlier wished us a Buen Camino, might see us and accuse us of cheating. Nobody saw us getting on, but no sooner were we seated on this comfortable bus, and a flash of lighting lit the darkening sky, followed immediately by one almighty crash of thunder. The God of Camino saw us I think.

What a great day! We feel we have shared in a small way the spirit of the pilgrim and the reason why half a million walkers flocked to this place in 2024. We made our way back to the plaza at Compostela and got a fellow Camino to take a photo of us, as all our fellow pilgrims were doing all around us.

Tomorrow, we set off for the railway station to catch the train to Vigo for the next stage in our quest.

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