Samos

Monday, June 23
Well, Fr Paul's shin was really hurting today, so we didn't get too far. We finished the remaining couple of miles into Triacastela, but all steeply downhill and so really bad for Fr Paul's shin splints. We found a drug store and got some medicine and he wanted to continue on at least for a little bit slowly. We picked a trail was generally level, but a little longer to get to Sarria. Of course no trail is really level, but goes up a bit and then down a bit. This one seemed to go down a bit more than up, as Samos in at the bottom of a valley. It is known for the monastery here. It is actually one of the oldest active monasteries in the whole of the Western world, and one of the largest in Spain. So we are looking forward to taking a tour and joining the monks for Mass and vespers this evening.
Please pray for us and that these bodies will carry us the remaining distance. You are all in our prayers and thoughts. God bless.
Mass was very nice, they combined it with evening prayer. It is just a small community of only about 17 monks, so the singing was a little weak, and in Spanish. The church is beautiful also.
We are now sitting having some supper with a woman Protestant Minister, and a woman and a man from Australia. So it's always an interesting international group of people on the Camino.
Till tomorrow.
We had a little rain here also, actually it poured. And the old monastery building that they made into the pilgrim's hostel is now below street level. Of course b the sewers got clogged and water started pouring into the dorm, which made for an exciting time as everyone started moving their backpacks onto their beds, and grabbing mops, and trying to clear out the drains. So never boring on the Camino.