Day 21 - El Ganso - Mid Term Report

Today is the half way point in our journey time wise.  We have walked 21 days in September since leaving St Jean Pied de Port on Sept 10.  We have a flight booked from Santiago to Madrid on October 22 so we have 21 days in October available to walk.  We walked 9 miles today in 4 hours bringing our total miles walked to 160.  We also passed the halfway point in distance today since we have 155 miles to go to reach Santiago!

We have planned our remaining itinerary for the next three weeks.  It includes 16 days of walking, 3 days for rest and 2 spare days.  We have been told that the Camino will get more crowded the last 70 miles (past Sarria) since that is the minimum distance one can walk and still earn your compostela or certificate of completion for the journey.

Arriving in El Ganzo

Foggy morning on trail

This is basically an abandoned village that was active during Medieval times because of the pilgrims.  Pretty dumpy town. 

Hmmmm...see what I mean.  

Because we were the first to arrive to the hostel today, we got the 'honeymoon suite'. It's a double bed under the metal steps just off to the side of 10 bunk beds within the dormitory. There are 18 bunk beds upstairs. When we chose this bed, We forgot to consider the noise of all these people hoofing it up the stairs. It sounds like steel drums overhead. Lights are turned off at 10:00 pm, so hopefully it will be quiet.