Day 33 - Palas de Rei to Arzua

Today was our last scheduled long day - 29.9km.

It was an easy days walk as we broke the trip with an extended stop at the half way point - Melide where we had a traditional lunch of "pulpo", which is octopus in oil and spice with bread washed down with white wine.

We then visited the church and the museum.

The museum was very nice with a wonderful collection of, among other things, coins and lace.

The white wine at lunch made the last part of the journey seem to pass quite quickly.

The crowds that we experienced on Saturday and Sunday did down a little today. We are not sure why but maybe some of the locals are walking the Camino in increments on the weekends and today are back at work.

We see quite a few Spanish family groups with quite small children and at breakfast today there was a table of at least 12 children. Good to see.

We were impressed with our hotel in Palas de Rei last night, Hotel La Cabana and our hotel tonight is also good. Overall the quality of hotels is improving the closer we get to Santiago de Compostela.

The weather continues to be fine but there is a threat of cloud. We have not had to walk in the rain the past 32 days, and it would be a shame if we got rain in the last two days.

We have seen many romances blossom during the Camino which is good to see. Today we met a girl from Romania who started walking the Camino Norte and then from merged with the Camino Frances at Leon. 

She was in a hurry to finish the Camino to then go to Barcelona to be with a boy she met on the Camino.

Today we passed the 60, 50 and 40km milestones to Santiago de Compostela and we now have only two days of walking remaining. 

Both the remaining days are easy and only total 37km. If we were young and silly, we would wake up tomorrow morning and do the whole 37km in one day.