Okay, so awhile back I made reservations for us at a place called Casa Grande in Lingonde...double room...two beds. I have had it with overcrowded, noisey, stuffy, smelley albergues. For the rest of this journey, We are staying in hostals, and in private rooms! It's only for four nights.
Anyway, back to Casa Grande. We walk into Lingonde after a really good 11 mile trek from Portomarin and are told the hostal is 500 Meyers down the road. Off we go...only to find out it isn't our Hostal. We keep on walking and looking until we come to Airexe (don't ask me how to pronounce it). It's not there either. I called...the host says he's 11k further down the road. Well crap, that's all the way to Palas de Rae. Since we have to walk all of the last 100k, we set off to walk an additional 6.5 miles.
We get about a half mile down the road when this car pulls up long side of us. The woman driving indicates she is from Casa Grande and we should get in the CSR and she will take us there. Well, we're tired, grumpy, dirty and hungry, so we get in and off we go. Turns out this place is no where near the Camino, but in a small community called Sestelo (I think).
After about 7 miles down country roads no where near the Camino, we pull up to Casa Grande. To say we are skeptical and more than a little nervous is an understatement. What have we gotten ourselves into!
Well, the place is beautiful! We don't have a room, we have a suite with a huge bathroom (a real luxury for a pilgrim). Our hostess invites us to sit in the dining room and she proceeds to serve us a delicious lunch. By now it's close to 3:00 so that's our big meal for the day.
The rest of the afternoon is spent exploring this beautiful place, taking a short nap, showering in the huge bathroom and not worrying bout getting our clothes wet. Now we are in the courtyard sitting in the warm sun.
Tomorrow morning, she will fix us breakfast and drive us back to Airexe so we can continue our walk and we will start before where she picked us up so we will still walk the entire way.
Sheesh! What a day!
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