June 12 - Sarria to Ferreiros
The albergue just outside of Sarria, called Paloma y Leña was a really nice albergue, especially if you had a bottom bunk. Each bed had it's own plugin and there was a little table between the beds with a pretty little lamp on it and lots of room to put stuff. The top bunk, however, had nothing- not even a place to put the backpack. The only spot on the floor either forced me to put my butt in the face of the person in the bottom bunk or get hit by the door every time someone came out of the bathroom. So I slept with it at the foot of my bed - not ideal! And if I wanted to plug anything in I had to leave it sitting on the pillow of the stranger in the bottom bunk. Not saying that endless plugins should be provided for the price we were paying. Just saying- they were provided for half of the people. But it's a nice albergue all the same and the meal was really nice.
Our walk took us uphill a couple of hundred meters but fairly gradually and we didn't feel it overly. We went through 5 or 6 smaller communities and had coffee, juice or food at two or three. The first community, Barbadelo was five kilometers away so although we had breakfast in Sarria, we still felt the need for more. Then we walked through Rente, Peruscallo, Belante, O Brea and several others which all looked to only have one family living in them.
I'm not sure which of these next two posts is the official 100 kilometer point but I do know that the first is the one that was here the first time I walked ten years ago.
The countryside was beautiful in a pleasant, farming kind of way but we were hot and tired so were really glad to reach Ferreiros where we had not made a reservation and did not know whether or not we would have a bed. I walked in with an American woman and as luck would have it, including her we got the last three beds. I was really impressed with this albergue for a couple of reasons. The first was that they had thought about the top bunk people and provided shelves and plugins for the top bunks and a hook from the foot of the bed for hanging the backpack! Trust me it's bad enough to go up and down those foot killing ladders to get into bed without having to go down for every little thing you need out of the pack. I love this since I frequently end up on a top bunk.
The other things were the showers and toilets. They were new and clean and very roomy. Many, many, many of them are so small you can't sit down or get up off the toilet without bashing your head against the door. All very entertaining and I'm not complaining, just commenting - but here at Casa Cruceiro there was lots of room and the doors went all the way to the floor instead of just down to the knees. Excellent!
The countryside was beautiful in a pleasant, farming kind of way but we were hot and tired so were really glad to reach Ferreiros where we had not made a reservation and did not know whether or not we would have a bed. I walked in with an American woman and as luck would have it, including her we got the last three beds. I was really impressed with this albergue for a couple of reasons. The first was that they had thought about the top bunk people and provided shelves and plugins for the top bunks and a hook from the foot of the bed for hanging the backpack! Trust me it's bad enough to go up and down those foot killing ladders to get into bed without having to go down for every little thing you need out of the pack. I love this since I frequently end up on a top bunk.
The other things were the showers and toilets. They were new and clean and very roomy. Many, many, many of them are so small you can't sit down or get up off the toilet without bashing your head against the door. All very entertaining and I'm not complaining, just commenting - but here at Casa Cruceiro there was lots of room and the doors went all the way to the floor instead of just down to the knees. Excellent!
Our meal was interesting and very tasty. We chose the Menu del Dia instead of the Pilgrims' menu. It was one €uro more but was a whole step above the Pilgrims' menu. I had heard this was usually the case but had never tested it out before
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