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Sunday 21 May 2017

Day 6 - Sarria to Portomarin - 21 May

Day one of the Camino.
Sunny with some cloud is the forecast - when the fog lifts we will know if it is right. 8* at 7am when we set out. Thunderstorms predicting 3mm of rain didn't eventuate but we did have 5 small drops of rain.  This is the start at Sarria:

It isn't all flat!
                          Cressida, Shayne, Ron, Celia, Michael and me.
                                               Only 113 km to go!

                                              Cressida and Celia:


Arrived in Portomarin after a huge downhill section then over the river and a huge uphill section to the town to be met by more uphill to Albergue Aqua where we checked in, did some washing. Then we made our way down into town and had dinner,  it was a set menu of 5 choices of entree (huge mixed salad)  and 8 choices for main (grilled salmon) and 4 choices of dessert (Santiago pie-GF almond cake) plus 1/2 bottle of wine for 9.50 Euro!
We staggered back up the hill to bed relatively early at 10pm.
The internet in Spain (in the places we stay) doesn't seem to support photo uploads!

27.2 km today.