May 16 Lires-Muxia

Our walk to Lires


Stu


We were out of the Finisterre albergue early to walk to the light house. Mile marker "0" stands facing east resiliently against the wind and weather. Our plan is to walk to Lires about half way to Muxia. We have time and the weather is perfect. We slowed down inebriated by the warmth of the sun and relaxed countryside. The walk into Finisterre the previous day was intense exertion down a continuously rubbled dirt path. Those who have walked this route before chose to walk to Muxia from Olveiroa then to Finisterre. Needless we arrived in a wilted state which took a giant meal of assorted crustacea to soothe. In my mind the camino Santiago doesn't end until you get to the final marker at the sea. So different than the miles we have covered inland. Thank the stars and planets we have had perfect weather. Our clothes are dry we are about to eat again and we are in a room with a big double bed. We can get up and down without hitting our heads on the bunk above us. We are slowly transitioning to the very expensive modern world. Tomorrow we will conclude this blog from Spain.  Once home we will share our memories of this grand adventure. slowly transitioning to the very expensive modern world. As we travel south to Santiago and on to Madrid, we will add additional pages to this blog. We will be back in California on June 1st. If you have any questions, here is our email address stuwmson@me.com


Joan


We had to say goodby to Anton last night. He is an Italian from Mayore.  He is in late 50s I think  a marathon runner as well as doing ultra marathons. He just ran 160k before this walk. He had to go back home.  We got up late about 6:15.  We walked out to the light house about 9 1/2  k round trip. It was glorious.  Blue sky and you can see forever. They call it the coast of death. The end of land and only water. We then started our walk to Muxia.  We planned to walk 1/2 way. So we walked up through forests and villages with views of the coast. Along the way we met 3 women, 2 from London and 1 from Sweden. They did the camino 2 years ago. They started in April and had snow, rain, hail and mud. They came to do just the Finistere and Muxia part. They went backwards to avoid the bad hill in Cee. They suggested that we stay in Lires a small hotel with a restaurant.  Which we have done. It is lovely and sits at the top of a hill. We had salad and 2 delicious kinds of fish. I am going to have to try and get a Galician cookbook. One fish was cooked in the oven with asparagus and butter clams and shrimp in a delicious sause. The other grilled with a red pepper sauce. Both soft white meat. So delicious. We then had chocolate cake. And a whipped cream and strawberry cake. I have already signed up for dinner at 8pm. As I write this I am resting and Stu is asleep. We will be ready to start a new day tomorrow and finish our extreme walking at Muxia. 


We had a wonderful dinner last night followed by 3 deserts. The jefe of this wonderful hotel must have thought we were too thin because he gave us 2 deserts at lunch and 3 deserts at dinner. Once again a chocolate cake, a whipcream and strawberry Cale and flaun. All delicious  the rooms wer attractive spacious and clean. The bed was perfect. Even though I told him we left early no breakfast. He told me he would leave something out. He left fresh new bread, butter, jam and honey. He left sweet cakes , orange juice and coffee with cream in a thermos.  There is no better place then. Les Lires.