The day started in mist. After having had breakfast at the local bar I went across the river with the steep rock having the castle on top. A very beautiful morning.I very soon discovered that neither the GPS tracks or the guide books worked. The Camino had been changed since. To avoid getting lost I navigated up to the main road an followed that through the morning mist. I saw the 2 Irishmen but they did not intend to walk as far as I so I left them.
In Requejo I had some lunch before some more peregrinos with known faces appeared.The road got steeper but not much. This is certainly a land of building sites. Not only the road of very good standard but also the motorway and obviously they are also building a high speed AVE railway through the mountain to Galicia. We have nothing like this in Sweden.
When the mist had eased it became a very fine days. The ridges were full of power windmills. Hundreds of them I would guess.
After having tried both the Camino and the roadside everything got together at one place. Where the Camino went up over the motorway on the hillside. The motorway disappeared into two tunnels and the road continued up to the pass at 1.329 m. Almost that is.
It also went through a tunnel at the top. I did choose to walk that, a little more than 400 m long.Then again after the tunnel and a small village the Camino went a new way and I followed the yellow arrows. Green an lush forest, crossing both roads and creeks that finally after a lot of ups and downs ended in the village of Lubián, the last village of Castilla.
Ran into the albergue directly and met a Dutch and a Frenchman. We went and had a beer together an will have dinner soon. It is a very special village built like a labyrinth, difficult to find your way through. Meanwhile the albergue had filled some more but still no hopitalero/a. She came eventually and the the three of us went out to have dinner.
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