Day Fourteen: Samos Monastery

Our walk from O Cebriero to Samos started out cool and ended in the heat. It was another 20 mile day, which is very trying on David and me. We started with the moon in the sky and a beautiful rising sun.

The clouds were all down in the valley and it was quite beautiful. Galicia is known for its lush farmland and we were able to walk in some of the best areas. It was pretty much all downhill to Triacastela, where I finally got to have pimientos de Padron, the wonderful peppers that are from this region. They were excellent. We continued on and followed a river down through small farms and into Samos, know for its famous Monestary. It is one of the oldest in Iberia, and we stayed in the albergue that the Benedictine monks provide. Here we met a wonderful English couple that shared a table with us for dinner twice (long story) and a group from NYC. That evening was capped off by the monks chanting Vespers and mass.