Walked today: 7.2 mi. Camino’26: 285mi.
After several very hot days, it appears that the temperature for our remaining days on Camino2026 will top out in the lower 80’s.
Last year, the places open for breakfast for the first 4 miles of today’s walk were limited, so we had breakfast in Arzúa before beginning.
This was our 8th stay at Albergue Turistico Salceda. It’s about 1km off the camino path on the outskirts of the village of Salceda.
Lucia welcomed us, literally with open arms when we arrived, then asked us to have a seat while she verified our room was ready. She returned promptly with our room key. It was only 11:30 and check in time was 1:00.
Our first chore was to get showers and gather all dirty clothing and deliver it to reception to wash and dry.
We had lunch in the dining area at 1:00,?then spent the afternoon chatting with Lucia, Santiago and Lucia’s daughter, Larisa when we not in our room attending to our other chores.
For dinner, Santiago offered to cook his specialty, a huge T-Bone steak grilled at our table, with small potato chips, Padrón peppers and a nice crisp green salad, on the side.
It was delicious and impressively presented, sizzling to our table.
Larisa helped her mom and granddad with dinner for us and the other dozen or so guests.
The whole visit this afternoon was dedicated to getting reacquainted and celebrating the special the relationship we have with this Camino family.
Jimandi 