The Wonders Of Café

Today I walked from Redondela to Ponrevedra, about 20 km (12.4 mi) Adding the walking around town to try to find a super mercado, only to find out it is a holiday and everything is closed, it came to 28 km (17.3 mi)

First pictures from sunrise. 

It was a tough day. Yesterday we walked up a hill and then down long steep incline to get to Redondela, which is a beach city. Then today, instead of going along the coast to the next town (also on the coast,) we walk up a long steep incline out of Redondela, then down another long steep incline to Arcade. 

This is a view leaving Redondela:

After that, you guessed it, up a long steep incline out of Arcade. On the way up I saw these cute little doggies:

Then I looked up an saw a mountain with trees. I thought, "Oh, phooey, ;) I bet we are going the climb that mountain. Sure enough, we did, up a mountain stream bed of boulders. 

I saw these pretty flowers on the way up;

I had been dragging so I had a second cup of café con leche in Arcade. About half way up the mountain I was on fire, just tearing up the mountain and all the way to Pontevedra.

This was just a funny sight of a group of about 20 students, high school age, walking three across:

In my café fueled state, I passed all of them. lol

i ran out of gas about a half mile before I reached my destination. I kind of dragged into the Albergue around noon and had sit and wait until it opened at 1 pm. I could hardly keep my eyes open. 

However, my two little kids from the Spanish family, gave me a paper boat they made with a lovely note to me and a little pin with a yellow arrow. It was so sweet. They are really great kids. Their parents, Christine and Santiago are pretty great too. 

I got into the Albergue and got my bed for the night. Mr Burple's and my home for yhe night, Bed #8. Then I made the trek to the city center to find an Orange (telephone company) store. I lost the apple cable to charge my iPhone. I lost mine. I'm using an off brand one but it doesn't always work. After I found out everything was closed for the day, I went back to the Albergue, ate a bag of Risettas (kind of like Cheetos, but better,) took a shower, washed my clothes, and hung them out to dry. By then it was about 4:30 and I laid down. Next thing I knew it was 6:30. I've probably gotten an average of less than five hours of sleep a night for the last two weeks. 

I almost forgot, Portugal won the Euro Cup. There was some cheering l, but this was Soain not Zportugal. I hear it was crazy in Portugal. 

It's time to sleep. I look forward to your comments, they make my day. Thank you all for taking time out of your busy lives to write me little comments.