16-June-2016 Arzua to O Pedrouzo 22km

Woke up and had coffee in the cafe next door, returned to the room,  packed up and walked out the door as the church bells pealed nine. The weather was fine-ish, we pulled the pack covers on but left the Ponchos off. It wasn't long before we joined the mainstream of the combined routes of the Camino de Santiago, and it was crazy, wall to wall people, at least most were heading in the same direction.
We started the day feeling great in the body department. It didn't seem long before we stopped for more coffee and breakfast at about the 6 km mark. The toilet line was a sight to behold about 20 deep. The walk itself was beautiful with many long worn country lanes meandering through dark forests. It was nice, with the obquitory road passages thrown in. Most of the paths were paved. We didn't really stop again other than to chat at another restaurant where we met Brian, an NZ guy we met last night and Dick and Gene a Canadian couple from Montreal. We plodded on to O Pedrouzo, whem we arrived we basically went door to door from pension to pension but all were full, then we started on the Albergues, they also were full. We sat at a cafe and let our fingers do the hard work, using booking.com we found a pension (Pension O Meson) 5kms out of town that still had room, waved down a taxi and off we went.
Once there we were shown our room. We dropped our packs and when for something to eat and saw Sarah and Hamish at the bar. We told them our story and that all ahead was booked out. They rang a few more Albergues both sides of town with no luck. They also decided to stay here. Sarah put up her tent in the football field next door. Hamish had his kids arriving today to walk the last leg of the Camino with dad, so he booked a room.
We ate, we showered, we washed clothes, we slept, we woke, we went downstairs and met Hamish again with his kids, Matt and Hannah. We enjoyed a couple of beers together while watching Northern Ireland beat Ukraine. Then Lynette and I went for a bit of a walk to get bearings on where we were. We returned, we watched a little more football, we ate, we slept.