Saturday, June 20, 2015

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The best way to describe this Camino is to envision a letter Y.  We have completed the right leg (Ferrol) and now are leaving the tip of the left leg( A Coruna)headed for the intersection of the two which then leads into Santiago. Since we had already walked so much of the city, we felt entitled to hop on a bus to the outskirts of the city. Now the trick was to locate the Camino.  I was positive that the Camino had to be to the right but Jerry insisted that he saw two yellow arrows to the left so of course we head to the left. Wouldn't you know, those two arrows turned out to be the golden arches but I have to admit that an egg mc muffin never tasted better. By the way, the drive-in is called "MacAuto". Then off to the right  and the Camino.  A long difficult hot day, punctuated with steep climbs and no cute villages to offer relief, all to reach a place called Bruma at the intersection. Remember those villages that we have mentioned with the population of one, well this is a village of population ZERO! There was a relatively new alburgue but even the hostess didn't live there and only came to open it up. There was a very sparse kitchen (but no place to buy groceries)and a vending machine with a couple bottles of water. We inventoried our survivor food and found a can of sardines(Jerry's), a can of tuna fish, a can of pate and a few cookie crumbs. Our only other option was to walk another 3kms off the Camino to a another small town...so off we went.  We did find one of the last rooms and then tired and hungry went in search of something to eat.  Now this is a town of approx. 500 people however the only two restaurants did not open until 9pm!  We were absolutely astounded! We are in bed by then. We finally found a tiny store where we bought water, bread and bananas and retuned to our room and finished off our survivor rations. (remember to send the titles to our email)
How could we get lost, assuming of
course that I can get them on correctly.

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