I have booked and confirmed the day before that our luggage will be transfers by Tui-Trans, but discovered on the Sunday morning that things happens a little slowly in Spain. When I tried to phone reception to leave our luggage, I discovered that they do not open until 10:30 on a Sunday. A bit of a problem since we had a lot of walking to do and luggage needed to be ready for transfer by 8:30 am.
So they suggested that we leave the luggage at the very busy coffee shop downstairs. So the unknown but important good friend at Tui-Trans spoke to the only waittress via my phone to explain about the luggage. So we left our luggage in the corner of a coffee shop and started walking.
We left Nigran by walking through rural roads, through narrow alley ways between houses, down hill and uphill we went, still with the naive idea that if you can walk 5km per hour at home you can do it on the Camino. The lesson learned is, that walking at home, even in the Epping Forest or Cornwall is a lot easier than walking the Camino. You need to breath, stop and enjoy the view, eat some grapes and have time to be quiet.
Walking past McDonalds, it was a cheap option to get a meal for a very small amount of money. But even though it is very easy to order using the self-service kiosks, you still need to react when they call your number, or in our case, when nobody reacts and they hold out a package that might contain our three hamburgers. It worked!
Another lesson learned is that a hotel in a city, next to the Camino can actually be 6km away from Camino path, and that 6km can be uphill – all they way. Thank you Leki poles!
The hotel though was lovely, with unlimited free coffee, a room with a lift that stops on the actual floor and a bath where we could soak our feet in “Gewohl foot bath”
Dinner was delivered to the hotel and breakfast the next morning was a tasty experience.
