8-June-2016 Navia to Ribadeo 33km

Woke up very tired this morning, the big days may be taking its toll. Took our time getting out of bed and to getting ready,  checked out and found our breakfast spot just down the road from the hotel, I had croissant but as there was only one left Lynette volunteered to have tosada and coffee.
We walked our first leg, only 3.5km before stopping on a bench seat and eating the apple bought yesterday. It was a rural view one way and highway view the other, we position ourselves for the rural view.
We soldiered on after the break, at the 10.5km mark we had second breakfastses at La Caridad and a chance to kick the shoes off for 10 minutes. We walked straight through town and back on the road, eat, drink, walk then repeat. We saw little until we stopped again for another break and coffee. We hadn't decided at the onset where we were going to stop but we were hoping for Ribadeso and the only way we were going to make it is with frequent foot breaks.
Just before Porcia was a series of old sluice gates, remnants of mills from years past, there was an information board with the story of the Rio Porcia which we found interesting - at only 26km long it had a colourful history.
We then went a little off track - actually the track split we wanted to go the shorter route to Ribadeo but we had started on the longer coastal route. We stopped at a bar to recharge, by this time it was very warm out so we wanted a longer break, the bar didn't have food to serve but had food on the bar to help yourselves, we had a boiled egg each, some chorizo, bread and cheese, some peanuts, I had a beer, it was a good break, then we headed back down the TC2 road to get back on track.
The final leg from Brol to Figeuras was awful, hot and more road pounding. It probably would have been better if we had gone the coastal route. The town of Tol was supposed to have an Alburgue and coffee according to the Wise Pilgrim App, the Albergue was closed and no cafes. The app is not up to date, this is probably the 3rd Albergue we have passed that has been closed since we downloaded this App.
We had to stop in Tol anyway to rest the feet again, Lynette's feet were playing up today. We eventually headed on, we had  coffee stop in Figeuras, only just over a kilometer left to go.
The entry to Ribadeo was across a long high bridge, the town looked great nestled on a hill but the day was very smoggy I didn't even bother taking a photo as I knew it would be rubbish. On a clear day it would be very photogenic. We completed the 33km walk at 7.00pm. We booked in at a Pension across from a big park / kids playground, we both flopped on the bed and coudn't move. Eventually I got up showered and did the washing, Lynette followed, then we went in search of a Orange Telco shop as Lynette needed to recharge her phone and was having difficulties online. The shop was a about 500 meters from our hotel but felt like miles. Then the agent also had trouble and there were no chairs, couldn't stand long on the flat of the foot as it hurt, moved to the balls of the feet but that hurt, moved to the heels that hurt, most uncomfortable.
Then we when in search of a restaurant, it was harder than we had imagined as most places were just bars serving Tapas, we wandered far too much on the weary pegs, we found a place right next to our hotel that served a menu of the day. The food was good too, a healthy salad to start then the meat and potatoes.
The people on the table next to us had heard our accent ans started up a conversation. They were a retired couple for Sydney who had cycled from Seville to Santiago, then bused over to Ribadeo and were about to cycle back to Santander to catch a ferry to Plymouth. They were both dual passport holders (UK and Dutch) so no Schengen over stay worries for them. We talked until  after 11.00pm. They gave us some good stuff for our travel list.
Next up Ibuprofen and bed.