Campobecerros to Albergueria

Distance: 16 miles / 27 km
Crossed Mount Requeihada today. Considered the most challenging climb of the entire Camino Sanabres.
Total: 62 miles

Notable memories

Communal dinner.

Liosh, a Hungarian man, who is traveling with Franz and Bernadette, made an outstanding potato dinner tonight along with the side vegetable salad. He invited me to join the three of them. Outstanding meal after a hard day. Liosh is a great cook.

Turns out that Franz and Bernadette are Dutch, Liosh is Hungarian and I am American. So I speak English with Franz. Liosh and I speak Russian because it's the only language we have in common. And Liosh speaks German with Franz and Bernadette. Lol, a little later it turns out that Liosh and I also studied Japanese so we tried that for a while also. Unsuccessfully.

Challenging Mountain climb

I arrived at my intended resting place at 1 p.m. today which was a really fast time. It was much faster than I expected.

So I was sitting there thinking that I did not want to spend the entire day in this town, so I decided to hike on to the next town. That meant a 300 meter, about 1000-foot climb as the last part of the hike. That climb would start at about mile 13 and go to mile 16.

So in fact it was a really hard climb. But I had plenty of fruit, Power Bars and cookies and water in my backpack. So although it took a long time, I got it done and made it to the hostel tonight.

This cute German shepherd was lying in the middle of the street when I came through the town. He came up to greet me, followed me through the town and then waved me off at the end.