Kappy's Camino 2019: Oct 16 more rain

Oh duh, it’s raining😬 Time to get up and walk. Everyone is still asleep so I’m waiting for 7. How do people who turn the lights out at 9pm sleep til 7am?

Today we walk to Palas de Rei. Gonna be rainy all day but at least no colder than 59 degrees. When I am walking with my poncho I don’t need a jacket also because the plastic acts as an insulator- that’s a nice way of saying that it makes a little, private “sweat tent.”

So I walked out of the bar/restaurant at 8:30 and the rain wasn’t there! Yes. I got to walk for about 3 hours without rain. There were also very few pilgrims on the road. Here is a photo of a monument to Christ and his mother Mary done in the year 1670. On one side is the cross, the other Our Lady of Pain.

Not a really good picture but if you zoom in you can see how much pain she is in.

I continued on and met up with a couple of Dutch ladies at a cafe for a cupa cafe americano. The place was named after ants - didn’t ask .....

We conversed with a couple from Ashland, OR who suggested we might want to take a side trip to an old monestary and since it was a short day we decided we would. So glad we did. As we arrived a few minutes before noon we noted that the church was not open until then. No worry as an older man came ambling up the way and, although he didn’t speak English, made it clear that he would open up for us. Turns out his name is Jesus, he is 91 years old and he was anxious to share the history. We labored on in pig-Spanish-English until his fellow volunteer Elena arrived. The church was built originally for a bunch of nuns of the Benedictine order and once they were all gone (as in dead), the Knights of Santiago took over the place in the 12th century. Amazing stuff here