Day 42

Liñares to Fillobal - 15 kms
22 May 2019

Our walking life on the Camino is made up of routines. We get up and eat a first breakfast before leaving our accommodation - usually yoghurt or bananas, sometimes both - and then we set off on our walk before sunrise which is now around 7 am. We walk and make stops in the different villages as and when we need a second breakfast or lunch. Once we've arrived at our stop for the day and booked in at our accommodation we shower, wash our clothes and relax until dinner - this usually involves going for a stroll around to explore where we're staying. Dinner can be quite late for us Kiwis, often not finishing until after 8 or 8.30 pm. We then quickly organise ourselves and our packs ready for the next day and go to bed as soon as we can to get max sleep. We close the shutters, turn the lights off and lie there in almost complete daylight as the sun doesn't set until nearly 10 pm!
Most of our walk today skirted around the side of the high hills giving great views out over the surrounding countryside before we started to make our descent. We've dropped about 400 metres to Fillobal where we're staying tonight. Fillobal consists of the albergue, a cafe/bar and only a handful of houses - it's not even a settlement as such.

San Esteban Church as we walked out of Liñares this morning. The moon is still up.

A statue of a medieval pilgrim looking out over the valleys from Alto de San Roque.

The village of Hospital de la Condes once had a pilgrim hospital which is thought to have been one of the earliest hospitals built for the pilgrims walking to Santiago.

11th century Iglesia St Juan - Church of St John. 

Santa Maria do Polo Church

Pappy's house at Alto do Polo needs so much work done on it - one end doesn't even have a roof but at least he has some walls to keep the wind out.

We set off warmly dressed but soon heated up with all the ups and downs of the path.

As we walked through the small farming village of Fonfria this lady raced out a farm shed and insisted that we take crepes to eat ...she then insisted we paid for them!

The church at Biduedo. We stopped at a cafe in Biduedo for a freshly squeezed orange juice. 

The cows were busy eating - they had bells around their necks so there was quite a noise and the stench from the shed was so strong, they have such a poor quality of life.

Just down road from the housed cattle this cow had complete freedom.

Arriving at Fillobal for the night

142.5 kms to Santiago from Fillobal

A hórreo - a grain storehouse. It has flat overhanging stones at the top of the supports to stop rodents from being able to climb up to the grain.

Potted oxalis outside our albergue

This is our route out in the morning.