July 14th - Rest day



Decided to stay another day in Redondela. We were able to reserve a room at hostel in town for €24.  Bargain and very nice place with washer / dryer and coffee too.

We went to get breakfast at about 8am, closest place was surrounded by the all night party crowd.  Smokers most of them. John got coffee and a pastry and brought it across the street. 

Checked into hostel at 12:30 and we sat around relaxing.  I posted 3 days worth onto blog while John napped.  We left about 4pm to get something to eat.  But then remembered that kitchens close from 3ish until 7 in Spain.  So glass wine and snacks. 

My leg is slowly improving, but after about 4 hours of walking and sitting, it was bothering me.  About 2.25 miles on it and it's not happy.  I continue to take the meds hoping improvement will happen a little more quickly.  I am hoping we can do 4 miles tomorrow, remains to be seen, but we're going to try.

Worked on transportation from Santiago de Compostela back to Porto.  Looks like it will be bus not train.  Cost about €55 for both of us and about 4 hours of travel.  We're planning on leaving Santiago de Compostela on 29th, then one night in Porto before our flight on the 30th.

It has been disappointing to have to take so many rest days and I'm still not sure I'll be able to walk any further.   We'll just have to see.

I didn't do much wandering on this day, so didn't take photos.

Comments