Stage 28 - Vega de Valcarce to Fonfria

Where We Are Tonight:  Fonfria                      Miles Hiked Today:  14.4 (23.2 km)

Miles Hiked Overall:  395.4 (636.4 km)            Miles to Santiago:  89.5 (144.1 km)

Steps Taken Today: 45,517                             Blister Count:  hmmmmm....

Spanish Word of the Day:  queso  (cheese)

What We Learned Today:  Eat all the queso con miel  (cheese with honey) that you can...it's FABULOUS! 

As we came through a small village today,  this was the traffic jam we saw.

We are back into mountains big time now. This is the view from atop one ridge.  It is so beautiful!   It feels like you can see forever. 

The climb up to the famed O'Cebreiro town was tough!   It was very steep and rocky and unrelenting.   And it was very hot and humid...in fact, I was quite wet when I got to the top.  There we came across this sign saying we are finally in Galacia,  our last province we will go through on the Camino.   That is quite an.accomplishment!   Everyone was shouting in joy that we made it this far!

Once in the town, we had a celebratory lunch to commemorate the fact that we had made it to the "top."  (We thought that this town was the top of the mountain and all the books also state this,  but they lied.  We still had a LOT more uphill to climb but we didn't know it at the time.)  We celebrated with a huge lunch of home-made chorizo (sausage), empanadas (pastry with a meat and vegetable concoction), vino tinto (red wine) from the region,  pan (bread), and the best queso con miel....which is now my very favorite food ever!  

Queso con miel is so good that we had it for dinner, too, when we got to Fonfria.   We saw the cows that made the cheese walk back to the barn from the fields as we were eating!   Their barn is directly across the street from our albergue.   Many people around here sell fresh honey..so that was local and fresh as well.

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'M POSSIBLE".”

―Audrey Hepburn