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08:26 Minutos
Made an early start at 7 after hot coffee, bread and a piece of chocolate for a really interesting walk, to Lugo this time. The morning was wonderful. We went uphill to a lovely sanctuary, Nuestra Señora del Carmen, which had a long spread of wild garden down the hill with streams and little ponds and old trees. Idyllic. A very peaceful place, which St James the Apostle (Santiago) visited and walked. Over the past days I´ve thought, "St James, one of Jesus´s best friends walked here" and it was becoming more and more part of every step. It was a pretty route to Vilabade where the church was sadly closed - it was once a franciscan monastery way back in 1457. We sat on benches by spring flowers and breathed it all in. Pressing on, we arrived at Castroverde where we stopped for coffee (it´sa really friendly town) before visiting the Tower dedicated to the Altamiras. Met a photographer there by chance who was taking pics promoting the Jacobean Way. He took some of us for his mag before moving on. We seemed to go all the way round Castroverde before finding our way out! The walk was delightful, going past bubbling streams, mysterious caves with locked doors (were there underground tunnels from Castroverde´s church to here??), immense trees, pretty paths and little bridges, slabs of rock that looked like mossy tombstones, primroses, meadows full of daisies and buttercups, lambs, calves, and a buzzard soaring overhead (shown) ... many robins, finches and blackbirds in the trees ...
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