Day 30 - Triacastela to Sarria

We are now in Sarria having successfully completed the seventh stage of our eight stage journey from St Jean Pied de Port in France to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain.

We now have only 111km remaining until we reach Santiago de Compostela.

We stayed the previous evening in Triacastela at, a small hotel, the Casa David. It was one of the more enjoyable rooms we have stayed in as we had a little terrace on which we could sit and rest in the afternoon. Very nice.

We then spent the evening with friends and ended up eating dinner quite late.

A very good night.

Today we were up and walking reasonably early, but not until the sun was up.

There were two choices for today's walk, a longer walk that went past a Monastery and a shorter walk which went through mountain country side with more ascents and descents.

We opted for the mountain countryside and are glad we did.

The scenery was, once again, spectacular and we spent most of the day on winding mountain paths through lots of woodlands and farms.

There were a number of small hamlets but no towns large enough for a coffee shop until the 10km mark and it was VERY busy. I waited in line for coffee for about 10min, which is worse than Gloria Jeans. Lucky we had breakfast at Triacastela.

Soon after this we got our first view of our destination, Sarria, and then spent the rest of the day descending, initially through woodlands and farms, and then through the outskirts of Sarria.

Our walk today was only 18km and therefore, after checking into our hotel, the Hotel Anfonso IX, we went sightseeing and then had an early lunch. Fresh pasta. Wonderful.

Tomorrow we star the last stage of our journey to Santiago de Compostela.

Most of our remeaining walks are planned to be short:
Saturday - 22km to Portomarin
Sunday - 23 km to Palas do Rei
Monday - 29km to Arzua
Tuesday - 18km to Rua
Wednesday - 19km to Santiago de Compostela