While sitting around a supper table full of peregrino's on our first night in Orrison mom said we would get to Santiago one way or another.... Today we had to make a big decision.....mom decided her ankles have had enough and I have been managing an injury to the arch of my foot that happened playing broomball about two months ago with advil but after up and down O'Cebreiro it is too painful for walking long distance.... Soooo we have decided to take the bus to S...

So last night at supper we had a great laugh at the expense of a German lady who was carrying a hair dryer in her pack.... She had a laugh at all of us this morning when she started her day with dry socks and shoes!!! I thought she was drying her hair for a very long time last night.... Guess it was the shoes!!! The downhill came today and downhill it was... Straight down pretty much for 8kms on very very muddy(and cow dung mixed in) and rocky.... It was so slip...

Well we had a decent sleep....I had a top bunk which is not my favorite but better than mom being up there.... At least this one had side rails!! We found a little place for breakfast and made our way out in the fog....mom may of had a moment of hysterical laughing this morning....I had told her a while ago that my goals were to hike the pyranees and up O'Cebreiro and to see Finnisterre....so she looks at me this morning and says.... Well you have done the two ...

Buffs are a great thing.... You can wear them as ear warmers(which i did in the wind today)...you can wear them as a sweat band..... You can wear them as a neck warmer.... You can wear them as a hat to protect your head from the sun....and if your feeling feisty you can pretend to be a pirate!! Arrrrrrgh Matey!!!..... Well I left mom sitting at the albergue with 5 back packs... She was the keeper of the packs taking them in the taxi.....I figured I could do the ...

Well we had a great sleep in the little room with the volunteer after of course they had finished doing a mystical Queimada which we had no idea was going to happen until we were woken up by a group of people outside our door ooooing and aaaaing..... We were tucked in our beds so we didn't go out.... Woke this morning ready to walk.... We had an awesome breakfast with fried eggs on toast and omelets cafe and peach juice!! This is an not normal as breakfast in the...