4 November sunny and warm with days getting even warmer

Shorter day today, and a good thing.

We are getting close to Santiago and the stages seem to have been set shorter, maybe due to accommodations or time to enjoy Galicia. The food is certainly better here and the walks have been a lot more scenic.

QB walked on drugs again. As the ride was shorter I went out to meet her on the trail. Got to see some more of the Camino and to stretch my legs. Very hilly section.

In some ways the ride today was less than ideal. No flat spots. Up a hill, then down a hill, then up a steeper hill and down a steeper one. Each downhill let my hip get cold so the uphill was quite painful until I climbed a bit and the hip warmed up or got inflamed again, hard to tell. Then downhill again.

One real advantage of the shorter day is that we have had time to prepare for Bob’s arrival tomorrow. Silver polished, shoes cleaned and buffed, new ascots, provisions laid in for feeding on the road.

Melide is a largish town with little to recommend it. A few more Romanesque churches ( but we have all seen many of them by now) and shops and bars. A largish town for people to live in. Highlight was the shoe store, artesian, that made nice saddle leather shoes and accessories. That and the supermercado where QB got some more of her favorite cookies. No gazpacho soup in the drinks section so less to recommend it for me.

And yet another church