Depart Time: 8:10 Temp: 50F RH: 90%
Walked: 8.8 mi. Camino 2024: 262 mi.
The walk from Ventas de Narón to Ligonde was totally on a gravel path along a secondary road for about 2 miles.
Ligonde (pop.64) is a hamlet with a variety of homes and farm buildings. One lady always has pumpkins or other vegetables decorating her second floor railing. She’s usually looking out in her kitchen window and waves to pilgrims as they walk by, as she did to Jim this morning.
We were walking up the hill from Ligonde toward Exirexe ( pop. 23) when it began to rain heavily. As we were scrambling to get our ponchos on, a man waved from his open garage for us to come inside…which we did. We chatted as best we could with our limited Spanish and his limited English. We learned that he was in his late 70’s, he had retired from Correos, the national post office service, he had walked the Camino 7 times and they were getting an unusually amount of rain this year. It was a neat encounter and as the shower stopped, we snapped a photo and moved on.
We stopped at an albergue in Lestedo to call a taxi to take us the remaining 3 miles to Palas de Rei, our destination for the day,
We checked in at 1:45 and immediately walked into town center for get our main meal for the day.
Our room is in a “pencion” called O Cabalo Verde. It has two twin beds and an ensuite bathroom. We were able to used the washer and dryer to get everything clean. Nothing fancy, but has all we need for a comfortable afternoon and evening.
In addition to our chores, Jim took advantage of the good wifi signal we had in our room and watched grandson, Braden compete in his 2024 ITA Mens Championship round of 16 match this morning in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (we watched his live 9:00 a.m. CST match here in Spain at 4:00 p.m.).
The forecast is for 0% chance of rain tomorrow.
Jimandi 