Today it rained, SO much. We left in the rain, walked in the rain, climbed in the rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Because of this, I don’t have many photos of the day.

When we got to Vega de Valcarce, it began to thunderstorm. Like, bad. Light up the sky, super sketchy through trees and being on paved roads, bad. I haven’t been in a thunderstorm like that, or close to that, since I was like 7 and in New Jersey. Mom, you will remember how terrified I was, it was worse than that. The wind picked up as well, it reminded Debbie of hurricane weather. We had to stop for a while and just wait. Too worried to walk on. We got pretty wet. We were so close to the next town to stop, but just didn’t want to risk it.

We climbed up the steepest dang hill that just kept going up and up after every turn over rocks and mud. At one point on this, a guy was coming down with his horses, which was surprising, mostly for me because of the weather.

After a long climb that felt like it was never going to end, we made it to La Faba. We ran into Kieran who had made a reservation for all of us are the Vegetarian restaurant for later. It was a cute German albergue that had lots of beds, that didn’t fill up. This meant more blankets for me! And everyone else who wanted some. I went to the local bar with Jen, Kat, and Kieran. We watched France vs. Argentina and had a glass of wine. By the time it was over, it was dinner time. We headed up to the vegetarian place, took our seats and Ohmygod! The food was SO good. We had a three course meal. The first was lentils, followed by the best stuffed zucchini I’ve ever had in my entire life, and banana for dessert. It was so much food again, but SO GOOD. Everyone loved it.

Day mileage: 15.5
Total mileage: 380.5
Personal mileage: 16.28