So, this is the first day of our second Camino of this trip setting out from Muxia. We wanted to set off early and couldn’t find any cafes that were open early, so we just, as we were staying in a little studio apartment, we decided to buy some eggs and ham and a bit of bread and do our own breakfast in the morning. And yet still we’re very slow in the morning, and I think we finally got going at about 7:30, and then we wandered around looking to see if there was a pharmacy open early in the morning. That’s another story, totally, but finally we got going at about 8:00.
I had warned Pat that there was a fairly steep hill coming out of Muxia. So we enjoyed the walk along the coast and there’s that big new Parador up on the hill overlooking the coast. And then again, it wasn’t quite as I remembered. I’m sure that the route has been rerouted a bit because there was quite a long uphill drag on minor roads, and then finally we were into the forest, onto the gravel tracks, and the extremely steep part that I remember has now been avoided by taking the path on some of those minor roads. So, I think the climb up was probably a little bit easier because of that diversion. There’s some great views.
We had an interesting chorus as we were walking up; where all the local dogs were barking at each other and I’m sure up in the forest on the other side of the valley there were some wolves. I don’t know if wolves are around in this part of Spain, they certainly are in other parts, but it almost sounded like the wolves were having this vocal battle with the local dogs. It was quite spooky.
Then we passed up through the wind turbines up to the top and they had the long slow downhill into Lires. Whereas in the past, I had walked the Fisterra-Muxia section in one go, this time we were breaking it up into two with a break in Lires which I was certainly grateful for.
As we came into Lires, we dropped into a local restaurant where I had been before for breakfast. This time we dropped in for lunch and I think it’s called A Braña, really outstanding menu and the food was delicious. So, we had that, ate far too much of course.
Then continued on to our casa rural, which is Liresca, which is very comfortable. We might take a wander around later on in the village and look for a small snack, maybe for dinner, we won’t do a super, early start tomorrow because the casa rural provides breakfast at 8. There’s nowhere here to get breakfast any earlier than that and there’s nowhere to buy a DIY breakfast. We only have a 14k day tomorrow, so, I think we can afford to stay a little bit later, have the breakfast here at 8:00 and then set off for Fisterra.
Second day of our second Camino coming up.
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