24 May 2008

Just a word about yesterday´s dinner. We had not fully understood what the young woman was offering us. She did ask us if we wanted the ¨especiale¨. It was a chulettón and not a chuletta. Whatever... In fact it was a 970 gram steak covering our whole plate with not an inch to spare for anything else not even for cutting the humongous thing. It was quite tasty since it was fried in garlic and even had been salted, unheard of though more common here in Galicia. Pepper never makes it into anything not even on the table. We dragged ourselves away from the table not having had this much meat in the whole month put together. It turns out that the 18 Euro price which we though was for two was in fact for each of us. We had a good laugh and fell into bed like rocks.

We hit the road once again this morning under a cloud covered sky. We stopped for cafe con leche which is now a must for Bernie who never had anything but tea at home. He is now a convert to Spanish coffee which is consistently excellent. The road was good and the walk fairly easy today. Whenever we got too warm and decided to take our raincoats off, it started to rain. So we put them back on and minutes later, it was nice. This went on all morning. At one point, we got to a place called Furelos. It had a very old church with a most unique crucifix. Only one of Christ´s hands was nailed to the cross which left his other arm hanging by his side. Even the stamp (sello) provided by the church for our credentials, depicted this unique crucifix. We will have a picture in our album. We are now checked into a nice Hostel in a town called Melide and we have already had a rest and a great lunch with vino tinto, salad and great meats. It was a short walk today since it is becoming difficult to break up the remaining distance into pieces that would lead to decent accomodation at the end of the day. We either have to make them too short or much too long. We are opting for short. We will now go see the town and, if anything interesting comes up, we will report later on.