Sold!

Along the Camino, there are considerable signs of construction and reconstruction, as economic life comes back to this part of Spain, albeit slowly and incrementally. Everywhere there are signs "se vende" (for sale) on everything from a pile of rubble behind a broken fence to something that might be worth salvaging. We are constantly telling ourselves what a good buy this or that would be (tongue firmly planted in cheek).

In Galicia, due to the increased numb of pilgrims, even at this stage of the year, we have found our accommodations are further and further afield, and we must phone them from a particular village on the Camino so that they can come and collect us. The next morning after breakfast they deposit us back to the same spot and we carry on with our Camino walking.

What has impressed us if the enormous amount of work these people, sometimes young-ish couples with children, have put in to renovate a wreck of am 18th Century farm or a 17th Century manor house. These places are lovely, and the care that is put into everything, food included, is way more than what we have expected and found thus far.

A few photos of what I mean.....

home smoked hams!

17th century servants stairway

now that's a fireplace! (runs between two rooms, with
ovens at each end

you can't see it, but that's a stream running into the dining
room behind us