A taxi picked us up at 7:00 at our albergue in Trabadelo and dropped us off in the village of O’Cebrerio about 25 minutes later at daybreak. This saved us 2 days of walking at our pace and keeps us on schedule to arrive in Santiago 12 days from now.
looking back on where we’ve beenstarting off on the path leaving O Cebreiro (1300 meters altitude = 4265 ft)looking back at this morning’s sunrisea look at the typical Camino path for the first 2 miles from O Cebreiro … like a roller coaster going both up and down around 4000 ft elevation.a short stretch on pavement then ……back onto the dirt path and up a steep section to Alto de San Roque (1270 meters = 4167 ft)Pilgrim statue at Alto de San Roque close-up of the pilgrim leaning into the wind (it was only 12 mph with gusts of 30 mph this morning)approaching the village of Hospital, hopeful that its sole bar will be open for a rest stop and breakfast after walking 4 miles.It’s Open!!! Yeah!!local art in the bar, depicting Galícian musicians… note the bagpipes.an old loom, off in the corner of a dining areaback on the road/ pathbeautiful scenery was plentiful all morning in the unusually fogless, rainless conditionsafter a diversion from the main road, smaller road, then back onto a dirt path heading upward
This next relatively short section of the Camino is, in Jim’s opinion, the steepest of all. Photos can not show how really steep this really is, but here’s our best attempt to give you an idea.
We’ve been thinking about this ” hill” all morning and now here it is. Note the size of the two pigrims on the bend of the path at top center of this photo. The next photo looking down was taken from this same bend.looking back at the beginning of the incline, the slight curve shown here. This photo was taken on the last bend about 200 feet from the top. To help put it in perspective, note the size of the 3 pilgrims on bikes below in front of the first building in right-center of photo above.
Below is is a series of shots we took on the way up. Start at the bottom left then right, move up to the next row, left then right etc., finishing at top right.
Once we reached to top, exhausted, we stopped at the bar, conveniently located at the top and had an OJ.
A popular rest stop after the ” hill”
We then walked the final 2 miles of the day into the village of Fonfria (pop. 41).
the path paralleled the highway for the two miles into Fonfria.we were greeted by this bovine delegation upon entering “main street” Fonfria.
We checked-in at Casa Lucas, collected our transported backpacks and were shown to our room. This is our 4th stay at Casa Lucas.
We had a light lunch shortly after arriving at Casa Lucas, prepared by the owner, manager and cook. Linda had this “specialty” of our host last Camino: fresh tomatoes & olives with fresh cheese. When Linda heard it was being offered today… well, her expression says it all.
After a relaxing afternoon, mostly in our room, we had our main meal at 7:00. It was prepared by the owner in the small dining room next to the kitchen.
1st course: Galícian soup (chickpeas, potatoes and collards) for Jim. Ist Course: Ensalada mixta for Linda… tomatoes were bursting with flavor!2nd course: Pork chops and fries for Linda, Fried Chicken, fries and. medley of mushrooms, carrots, peppers and chicken bits for Jim.
We had a nice local Galícian wine with the meal and coffee ice cream for dessert.
At dinner tonight in addition to good food we met 4 twenty- something pilgrims from Germany, Belgium, Great Britain and Sweden. At another table we met a nice lady who had started in SjPDP but will be returning home before she can walk to Santiago, because she didn’t have enough vacation time left. She was from St. Martin and lives only a short distance from our rental apartment in Orient Beach! We’re practically neighbors but we met on the Camino!
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Looking at the loom in the bar. Maryann thought it looked like a work in progress as opposed to a display. Could you tell? Love all the photos also how clean everything is there. DAVE
I’d say it hasn’t been used in many years, maybe scavenged for parts. It looked like it was stashed to get it out of the way. They don’t throw anything away, very frugal and conservative.
Jimandi 
Looking at the loom in the bar. Maryann thought it looked like a work in progress as opposed to a display. Could you tell? Love all the photos also how clean everything is there. DAVE
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I’d say it hasn’t been used in many years, maybe scavenged for parts. It looked like it was stashed to get it out of the way. They don’t throw anything away, very frugal and conservative.
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