Camino Inglés Day 4 Presedo to Leira (off camino) 11/10/2023

This morning I forgot to set the tracker in motion. Remembered about one hour after I left. So assuming that I walked at about 4 km/h you may add 4 km to the picture and statistics of the trail.

17.3 + 4 = 21.3 km.      8:30  -  16:30  so 8 hours of which 4.06 hours walked. No sitdown short pauses, but the usual pauses to stop and check the tracker and a long palaver with a fellow pilgrim I had met at the albergue last night, a long sit in the restaurant at Bruma, a good siesta shortly afterwards.

Out late. After everybody had left, see photo, I took my time to get ready, had breakfast etc. after the experience yesterday morning. Then the walk became noticeably more difficult  - mostly ups and steeper and longer all the way up to Hospital de Bruma - will try to post a profile of that part. However the sky was somewhat hazy and later in the day some cloud, so the sun was not as hot and there was quite a lot of wind.

Hospital da Bruma is considered a stopover in the Camino Inglés guides. I expected a town, but originally in the middle ages it was just a hospital for pilgrims and it has not really developed beyond: there are at least two albergues and a bar in a very old house which looks to me as if it might have been the original hospital - judging from the ruins I have seen of midieval hospitals along other caminos. And next to it there is the little church with its cemetary.

I proceeded at a good pace, but finally was overtaken by a young (from my perspective) woman with whom I had exchanged a few words last night in English assuming she was American like the two women she seemed to be with. Well, she was not, was not with the Americans either, had only just met them. She was German from Bielefeld, teacher, I forgot to ask which subject. Simone. This is her first camino. She worked out her stages beforehand, like I did - in fact almost the same ones as mine - but unlike myself she has prebooked her accommodation. And therefore also unlike myself she has no problem of having a roof over her head at night!

I had thought there are few people on the Camino Inglés and this being October we are off-season. No need to book. I only booked where there was only one hotel or albergue. Otherwise I telephoned the day before which worked until now. So tonight I ended up in a hotel 1.8 km off track. 

So from this comfortable hotel I have tried to find where to stay tomorrow night. The town of Sigüeiro is only 16 km from Santiago. Well, nothing to be had in this little town with several albergues with lots of dorms, not one bed in a dorm, not even an upper bed!
I had noticed that from the point where the two caminos from Ferrol and A Coruña meet it became quite crowded.

So I got a room in a hotel about 7 km from Sigüeiro and will take a taxi to get back onto my camino for the final kilometres to Santiago.

This has been a particularly good day because it was not hot and it is windy, however much too much roadwalking. There is talk of rain for tomorrow…..

                                       The dorm in Presedo after everybody had left this morning



                                                   Hospital de Bruma: church with cemetary



                                                                      Simone and Ina

                                                                                Siesta






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