Day 26 - Sarria to Vilacha

We were up early at O'Durminento and set off. The Bar Tapas was open and welcomed us for coffee. There was low cloud and it was cool and very humid as we headed uphill thru the forest following a gurgling brook. It was 10:30 when the sun broke through the clouds. 

We found a new model Lamborghini and Ada wants one!

Through Galicia we noticed a lot of new things that we hadn't seen in the last province, Castilla Y Leon. The first was the antique grain storage bins scalled "horreos".

The second was the crosses (cruzeiro) on tall pedestals found in many small villages but also seen at some private farms.

In the market gardens we noticed two metre tall plants that turned out to be "kale".  We found out that vegetables, including this kale is rarely on the menus, because it is considered "peasant food"! 

We decided to stop at Vilacha at Casa Benderas Alberge three kilometres before Portomarin. Here we met Gordon Bell from South Africa, Anne Marie from Denmark and their Hospitalero, Kunt from Greenland.  Gordon cooked us fried green (poblano?) peppers and spaghetti dinner.  

The topic of interest was Jack (from Edmonton) and his "z-coil boots" with shock absorber that allows him to cover 40 kilometres a day!