Finally a good day. It is not bright and sunny, but it is not raining and it is quite cool, perfect weather for walking.Our walk today crossed numerous small river valleys, and involved a lot of ups and downs all day. The villages are no longer as pretty as the ones during the early part of the walk, They are usually small dairy farming places with few houses and virtually no facilities. We try to get past them as quickly as possible. We had expected to slow down as we got closer to Santiago, mainly because of the lack of lodgings along the way. Unfortunately two short days left us with a long 20+ walk on our final day. In order to fix that, we decided to do a very long 30+ km day an make all the way from Melide into Brea. We were not the only ones with that plan, so when we got into Brea, in the rain, the one and only hostel was full. They assigned a couple of beds to us in a dormatory, and we were resigned to living refugio style again. Fortunately a Canadian girl we had met further up the road found that she had no use for the two bed room she had reserved, so they gave it to us. In the end it was a pleasant evening with a German couple we met at the hostal. Tomorrow it will be a short day into Lavacolla only 15 kms away.
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