Day 3 saw us heading up steep hills, with mist draped across the valleys below. We were starting with an explore around O Cebreiro, on the border of Galicia, where it is freezing cold in the morning!!! It has a charming stone Church, very simple in style, that claims to have the true grail of Christ! The other distinctive thing about this village, are the pallozas. These homes have been lived in up until the 1960's, and are two storeyed; animals downstairs, humans upstairs!! This area of Spain is Celtic.
The walk today took us on the road at times, but the paths OFF the main road, were spectacular. Beautiful wooded areas with crocuses coming up on the path edges, dry stone walls, views over green, lush farmland with cows grazing & at their necks the tinkling of bells, leading us to wonder whether we were in Spain or Switzerland! And when we weren't walking through this loveliness, we were ...
...making our way through quaint hamlets, where the few buildings were made of stone, as were the churches.
We were walking 9 km of the route to Samos & amidst the many forms of the scallop shell that serves as a marker for the Camino way, this was possibly the oldest & most charming!
Another hard but good day & miracle of miracles, at the end of a particularly gruelling upward climb, there was a café to mark the end of our day's walk. Coke never EVER tasted so good!!!!
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