June 15 Day 03 to Campiello

First night in an actual hostel, and it was almost completely empty two rooms with 10 bunkbeds in each one Jacque was in one room by himself and me another were in the other room. A very basic albergue, but it did the job, peace and quiet and a good sleep after the longer trek yesterday.

Today’s trek will only be about 22 km with an easier terrain, which is good in preparation for the harder ascent climb tomorrow through the mountains.

Jacque and I stayed together for most of the day again we had a 10 K hike to a little town called Timeo and had to wait till 12:30 for the restaurants to open so we can get our lunch before we continued on to the next albergue at the base of the mountain. In Spain on a Sunday everything is closed till 12:30-1:00.

The scallop shell also played a role in time of day, the spines acted like a sundial for the pilgrims

I ended up splitting from Jacque after lunch as he kept saying go go it’s ok, I think he thinks he was slowing me down but I was actually using him to help slow me down, but I honoured his words and sped up…only to meet him at the next albergue, like it normally happens. 🤷

I found a couple fire hydrants

26 km today in 4:45 hrs, so about 5.5km/hr

This albergue was a really nice very good setup with about 18 beds lots to do like foosball, cards and a few other things. There’s actually a little sports field where a couple local teams were playing a really different game.

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