Day 11: A Laxe to Punto Ulla
Distance: 17 miles / 29 kmTotal: 139 miles
Notable memories
Motivation for today's walk
When I got up this morning I knew that I was either one day or two days out from Santiago, and I was going to have to figure out how to split the distances.
Ultimately I decided to get as close as I could for the day. That turns out to have been right for a couple of reasons.
Ultimately I decided to get as close as I could for the day. That turns out to have been right for a couple of reasons.
Deciding to cover as much distance as I could, I stuck to the National Road 525. Now this meant that I wouldn't see the typical beautiful forests and groves and everything.
I was going to get nothing but pavement and road all the way.
On the other hand I discovered how much stronger I have gotten over the past 12 days. How did I come to this conclusion? I was able to keep up quite the pace today.
I think I was doing in excess of 2.5 miles an hour. Instead of having steep hills to climb and descend, constantly slowing me down and tiring me out, today I was able to just keep the pace going and going and going.
I was going to get nothing but pavement and road all the way.
On the other hand I discovered how much stronger I have gotten over the past 12 days. How did I come to this conclusion? I was able to keep up quite the pace today.
I think I was doing in excess of 2.5 miles an hour. Instead of having steep hills to climb and descend, constantly slowing me down and tiring me out, today I was able to just keep the pace going and going and going.
Solving the Ireland phone problem in
For 2 days now I've been trying to call Ireland to make sure that I have the right information on the Kerry Camino.
I spent two days with Google Phone support, who actually didn't help me at all. I actually figured it out.
Anyway the problem is that the phone numbers as listed on most web pages use the numbers '01' for the area code. Well when you're dialing the number internationally, I guess, you can't use the zero.
Zero has some special significance, I don't know what it is, nor do I care. But by including it, because I thought I had to, I was causing the phone connection to somehow short-circuit and hang up.
I read online that Irish area codes have either one or two digits. So I made the leap of faith that if the area code is 0-1, I should only use the one.
In fact that is what I did and my call went straight through to St James Parish in Dublin where I talked to a nice lady who told me what I need to do to get my pilgrim credential for the Kerry Camino on Monday morning.
And then it's on the bus to Tralee Ireland.
I spent two days with Google Phone support, who actually didn't help me at all. I actually figured it out.
Anyway the problem is that the phone numbers as listed on most web pages use the numbers '01' for the area code. Well when you're dialing the number internationally, I guess, you can't use the zero.
Zero has some special significance, I don't know what it is, nor do I care. But by including it, because I thought I had to, I was causing the phone connection to somehow short-circuit and hang up.
I read online that Irish area codes have either one or two digits. So I made the leap of faith that if the area code is 0-1, I should only use the one.
In fact that is what I did and my call went straight through to St James Parish in Dublin where I talked to a nice lady who told me what I need to do to get my pilgrim credential for the Kerry Camino on Monday morning.
And then it's on the bus to Tralee Ireland.
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