Guide to the Last 133 km - Camino de Santiago: Day 5: Melide to Azura

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At 14:00 we arrived at our destination - Pazo Santa Maria. If the hotel was disappointed yesterday, Pazo Santa Maria was better than expected - an old mansion from 1711 that was beautifully set up with super lovely rooms. After a quick shower we sat on the terrace and drank a beer. After having rested and reading today's newspaper, we ate dinner at 20 in the restaurant. Very delicious homemade food: Greek-style soup with roasted dates, calf skinned with carrots and potatoes, Galician almond cake, unlike the other prefabricated cakes we tasted the trip, was home-baked with a clear structure of chopped almonds. Now it had been bedtime before we get up early for a little longer trip tomorrow.

We had decided to start the day early so we could get well before it got too hot. The suitcases were put in the hotel reception at 08am and headed for Azura - a 15km ride. Breakfast was not included in the hotel price, so we got a 'petit déjeuner' at a cafe in Melide. It was a nice trip with the rising sun and the fog that was still low over forests and meadows. After 4 km through forest we stopped at a cafe a little before Boente and bought a cafe con leche. Enough Camino's nicest cafe. Where we went along the rivers at the start of our Camino tour, this means that it is constantly moving up and down relatively slowly and many beaks were passed on old and sometimes primitive bridges. The stand has also changed the character from low wide oak trees to tall slender eucalyptus trees. At Ribadiso da Baixo we stopped to rest our legs, eat an ice cream and drink a coke within the last 4 km to Azura.