Short day to Tineo

Yesterday afternoon we had a never-ending lunch in Casa Pachon right across  the street from the albergue. Some of the group wanted to watch the Portugal-Hungary game in the Eurocup and the rest sat in the restaurant speaking with the other patrons, all of whom are delighted with the fact the the Camino Primitivo is getting very busy. It brings a lot of business to these small places. 

Today's 21 km were pretty hard, mainly because of the quantity of mud. It has rained a tremendous amount yesterday afternoon (thankfully after we were all in the albergue and not one of us had a drop of rain fall on our heads). 

And again we were lucky today. A lot of mist when we left but not a drop of rain fell. We stopped to say hi to David in the Bodenaya albergue. 

Then the sun even came out and we enjoyed some great views. 

As we were walking up the hill after La Espina, I was telling Lourdes that I had run into a woman with her cows two separate times near this spot. And then boom. There she was again, bringing her 39 cows down to milk them! She knows each one by name and is living proof that happiness can be found almost anywhere. Hard life, tons of work, but there she was telling us how much she enjoyed running into pilgrims. 

We are in Tineo, in an old palace four star hotel that has opened a luxury albergue in the ground floor level. It's really pretty fancy. And from 5-7 pm its spa time for free for the pilgrims. Not sure a Turkish sauna appeals but we'll see. 

And they even have a special 10€ meal for pilgrims in their fancy restaurant.