Stage 5: And I’ve got a spring in my step on the penultimate leg of my Camino Portugues… hence the Strictly Camino Dancing.
Martin and Natalia are entreating us like sirens.
On the 18kms trek of our 100+ Camino Ways pilgrimage through the woods between Calais de Reis and Padrón.
En route to Santiago de Compostella.
I have been reminded from home that Britain’s favourite pastime Strictly Come Dancing starts its elimination round tonight.
And in the absence of any competition I insist on our dancing duo to award me a 10 along with my obligatory Camino passport stamp.
Getting the band back together
The band is back together again, Aussies Allan and Peter and Indiana Julie and Chicago Nancy.
Julie alighting on my Red Rocks t-shirt at our A Casa Do Lantoneiro billet in Calais de Reis.
Apartments up from the Hotel Pousada Real where we had to go to check in before being rerouted to the block up Rua Real.
You got that then… Big Brother Ed has been billeted half a mile up the road where we will wind down around ribs and wings.
Before heading back out on the Way.
Me reunited with the rucksack I had tried, with Eatrella Galicia on board, to waylay.
There are new members of our merry band of brothers and sisters today on the Way.
Irish Michelle and Maria, with whom we bla-bla-bla with, and naturally about blaa, the Waterford speciality roll.
Breaking bread at our last supper
And because we are on a spiritual journey I make no apologies at torturing a biblical metaphor.
And we will return to our Aussie pals Allan and Peter for breaking bread at our last supper.
At our digs for the night, Hotel Rosalía in Padron.
Tomorrow, God willing, we will reach our destination Santiago de Compostella and pick up my companion Camino certificate.
To bookend my 2016 keepsake.
It promises to be the longest day, 25kms and then on to Porto for a red-eye back to Edinburgh.
Now if only there was a train station near the Hotel Rosalía to save me the legwork.
MEET YOU ON THE ROAD
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