Wednesday, 14 October 2015

2015-10-14: Caminando Lubián - A Gudiña (25/268 km, altitude 1.100 m)

Again a day with various mishaps. Lubián is situated between two mountain chains and I passed the first one yesterday. The second one waited today.
I spoke to the hospitalera and she said that it always had been a discussion if Lubián should belong to Castilla or to Galicia. So it is an interesting place in a land where everything happens right now. The building of the AVE high speed train line from Madrid to Ourense affects everything. Also the camino that I discovered this morning. The camino has been reroute and after first having ended up in a stream and later in a track crossing that led to nowhere I determined to take the safe roadside again. Maybe a not so wise decision since when getting to "A Gudiña" I found that two acquaintances that succeeded in following the Camino and told me about a very fine day. Hmmm... I wonder what I did wrong.
After the last mountain pass when I or rather we got into Galicia I spoke to three Italians that helped me take a photo (a bad on unfortunately) but then I lost them.

Well, I followed the Camino the lasts kilometers into town and rapidly found the albergue. The Dutchman and the Italian who had found the Camino were already there. I found a bed and took a shower. Meanwhile the three other Italians arrived. But they found something that the rest of us had not seen. Bedbugs!!
We quickly cleared the albergue and went to search for a hotel with available rooms. The first two were full. But we found a good one at the other side of town. That's where we stay now.


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