Today at our lunch stop we passed the 900km mark. We're down to double-digits and counting.
I had originally planned to walk 31km to the Cistercian monastery at Osiera which has lodging. I constructed that itinerary several weeks ago when we were walking through the relative flat lands of Badajoz and Caceres. The climb out of Ourense today was far more strenous than I'd imagined. It ranged from steep to stair-like. There is a nice albergue here in Cea and we can re-arrange the next few days to accommodate the shortfall. We'll probably arrange to visit the monastery at lunch time tomorrow. It sounds like quite a monument. This probably works out better. Had we pushed on, we would have arrived late and exhausted, without time to look around.
Ourense was a nice town. I was sorry to have to leave after such a short visit. The route into Ourense was through an industrial area, but the walk out was through small business and residential areas with lots of bars and shops. We were barely out of the city center when we started seeing vegetable gardens again. The percentage of homes with gardens the past several days has been astounding, and all very well kept.
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