Triacastela to Sarria - September 7, 2024
With the first 21 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago in my rearview mirror, I felt energized as I got ready to meet with my friends, Carla, Giulia and John for breakfast. They seemed just as pumped to get started on our 25 km walk from Triacastela to Sarria. Carla suggested we go through Samos to see a monastery. She said the route would be slightly longer than the San Xil one, but the monastery came highly recommended by a fellow pilgrim she met yesterday. We agreed to walk the extra few kilometers. At 8:30 AM the air felt crisp after the rain from the previous day. We strapped our backpacks and Carla snapped a selfie of the four amigos in front of our hotel, a tradition we started from our first Camino in 2022. I whispered a silent goodbye to Triacastela where past pilgrims’ footsteps seemed to linger just a moment longer. Once out of the town, we marched over undulating hills, winding along scenic wooded paths through large swathes of farmland dotted by a few houses. Sometimes we ...