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Camino de Santiago, dia 7

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 Monday September 29: I met up with the others,


walking along a highway with occasional bypass to local paths.  Then up the old Roman Road for beautiful views of the coast and headlands along the woodland path that showed the ruts of generations of cartwheels and sledges.  Then downhill sharply, through suburban houses to the wealthy town of Baiona.  

 By this time Lisa was increasingly suffering from blisters, stopping hourly to nurse them.  My feet were also feeling the strain, with a few calluses threatening to blisterize, and a sensitive achilles tendon in my right foot along with sensitive metatarsal bones there – but as long as I simply walked simply, not running or jumping, it went okay.  



September 29th, Monday noon, the Baiona Tourist Office was closed, but I found the post office and mailed the card to Porto (it arrived two days later!).  Lunch at Cafeteria Monterrey, for excellent mussels and a Fanta Limón.  We walked along the corniche and the huge lagoon and tidal flats,


an old bridge, up a long hill to Nigrán and El Retiro Pensión (old, hot, no A/C, no elevator)  The El Retiro restaurant was closed, so we found a delightful dinner at Literata Beer Garden, on a surprisingly civilized plaza next to the public library.


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