Life's a Stitch

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Apologies for the delay, reception has been challenging, and the formatting has been affected. 

 

Guest blog post by Chuck:

We spent the night in the peace and comfort of the Mosterio on a mountainside as Li has described. We knew that by the evening we should be seaside so pretty good chance that we’d be going downhill, ie gravity would be working for us instead of against us for a change. 

 

Our morning walk took us on a path descending along a stream, aptly named the Route of Stone and Water. The tranquility was a pleasant contrast to the mass exodus of pilgrims when leaving the large cities. 

 

The stream dominated our focus as the fairly quick descent made for waterfall after waterfall after waterfall. There were occasional interludes of still water and the sound moved between a babble and the boisterous rush of the falls. 

 

Along the way were the remains of numerous stone structures and channels. Our surmise of flour mills was soon confirmed when we saw the large grinding stones.

Others were not as obvious. We later discovered them to be sawmills. Most impressive is that they were from 500 years ago!

 

Gravity fooled us again with a steep ascent, but the threat of rain subsides and the patch of blue sky grows in front of us as we make our way back down. The path remained ours alone until we neared a village where we were greeted by a couple of dogs taking their masters for a walk. 

 

Finally a glimpse of the sea and our destination for the day. 

 

Without a doubt, one of the most interesting and beautiful walks on the Camino so far.