Day 13 - Santiago de Compostela to Negreira - 21.7km

After a fantastic meal and social with friends we got back to our apartment later than expected at around midnight. Unfortunately the bar underneath was banging music out. Checking online its open til 4. Not very pleased is an understatement. A complaint to booking.com is in order!! One night for a 2 bed apartment so no earplugs needed was going to be lovely. Ah well earplugs again then!!

Positive attitudes only! So we woke this morning at 6.45 to get showered and organised as we need to walk 15 minutes to drop the bag off at a pension by 8 followed by breakfast!

Breakfast was at turtulia cafe where mum had her current favourite yogurt bowl and I had a bagel and some churros.

Today we will start our second Camino so we wanted a new credential - our little camino passport where we collect stamps. Everywhere was shut so we seemed to wander here there and everywhere waiting for places to open. We eventually got sorted for about 9.45 and set off on the Camino do Fisterra

This 90km route leads from santiago to the end of the world at finisterra lighthouse.

Mums sandals are both super stylish and comfy it seems. The pressure is released and her toes are not causing so much pain. The route today already has more climbing than a lot of our days. The path was much better too, with a lot more walking in woods, and when by the roads the paths were often separated by a verge.

We met Lisa (pronounced leeza) from Germany who runs yoga retreats and is planning a way to run a retreat where people do the camino with instructor led yoga sessions at the start and end of the day. We had a good chat and walk and we have our first eurovision party attendant for saturday in Fisterra!!

We passed a beautiful roman bridge at pontemaceria and got some great shots before continuing up a hill. A big hill. The path was lovely and we marched on and up for a few hours.

Eventually we reached Negreira and checked into Albergue Coton. Its a proper albergue. Rickety metal beds, one big room split down the middle with about 40 beds in total. Our side of the room was us and a busload of asian tourists. It was interesting.

No food option at the accomodation, so laundry done we headed to the recommended local eating spot. One of the specialties was a Octopus, Prawn and Baby Eel stew. I love the first two, havent tried the third so when in rome.... try the very fishy spaghetti it seems. That alongside the massive plate of pork loin and chips went straight to our eyelids.

Before we even got close to bed we had the sound of thunderous snoring from the guy in the bunk next to us. Sometimes, albergues are not the most fun. But earplugs will go in AGAIN and we will see what tomorrow brings.

If anyone wants advice on Hiking Sandals i know a lady who is a recent convert... just dont tell her 17 year old self!!