2 May Puente de Domingo Florez to O Barco de Valdeorra. 20.96 km per AllTrails. Day three is in the books. 13 miles too many for us! To wrap up our night in Casa Rosa. I had my doubts, the pilgrim sleeping room (dorm) is at street level and we couldn’t get the shades to go all the way down. But when we woke up this morning Cullen asked, “how did you sleep?”, and I replied “Better than expected”, he agreed. Breakfast at 7:30 - a beautiful spread! A lot of love has gone into this albergue. Perhaps if all the beds had been occupied it would have been a different story? Who knows? We were the only two in the dorm. 😎 We left around 8:00 and there were many places we could have gone to last night we just didn’t feel like walking last night. The Brierly guide provides a good description of the route so I will just make some comments. The rest areas/ picnic stops were being weed whacked when we walked by. We appreciate the work they’re doing to help us pilgrims! The Virgin Statue just passed Nogueiras is lovely! Definitely worth a rest stop and reflection. We heard/saw a lot of slate mining going on. Most of the towns we passed through most bars were closed. This is definitely a trail to carry provisions. Leaving Sobradelo and walking on the road we missed a sign to turn-off towards Entoma. Since we were relying on the wikiloc app it was disappointing. In a number of places it did not follow the marked trail or the Brierly suggested route. We didn’t miss it by much but you know how it is. In our defense the sign was facing the opposite direction. If wikilocs hadn’t beeped at us we wouldn’t have known we missed it. We back tracked and went into Entoma and stopped at a little bar on a side street. It looked like the only bar in town. We were planning to get off the road walking at this point but a beautiful old Spanish lady insisted we take the carrretera as it would be much easier and faster than the trail. So we took her advice. Not sure if she was correct but it was hot as hades today (86F)! We arrived in O Barco around 2:30. By the time we checked in to Gran Tortuga, showered, and washed clothes it was 4:00. Too late for a nice menu del dia so we went to Bar Lisboa, drank some wine and ate delicious little bocadillos. But we need a good dinner tonight. Cullen found a place that opens for dinner at 7:00 - Restaurant Piquino. We saw 3 pilgrims wandering around town today. We saw none on the road/trail.
Palma has been walking in sandals since Sahagun, 10 days ago because of a blister under her toe. She tried her boots today but decided best to stay in sandals a day or two longer.
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