Day 9 - Tui to Porrino

Nice easy 12.6-mile walk today. Weather was mostly sunny, but hot and humid. We're very close to the Atlantic, so everything is lush and green.

Not much road walking today, mostly on forest paths and backcountry roads thru a few villages. As the Camino nears Porrino, it formerly went right up the highway for several miles through a busy industrial area, but it has been recently re-routed through the adjacent countryside, which makes for a much more pleasant walk.

Tonight we're staying in an unusual accommodation, a small, 4-bed albergue located high on a mountain outside Porrino. The owner picked us up in town and drove us up, and will drive us back down in the morning. He's a wiry but muscular little guy who has summited Mt Everest, and leads treks to Nepal and Patagonia when he and his wife are not hosting pilgrims. What an interesting trip this has been--so far we've met an Australian senator, an Italian general, and now an Everest summiter.

A group of pilgrims taking a break along the trail.

Horses snacking on the lush green grass as we pass.