O'cadavo Stage 8 - Stage 7 Lugo 
After a good breakfast at the hotel we embark on the path of today June 20, 2010 at about half past eight with a superb time of sunshine and temperature at that time of morning, the bus brings us to where we finished yesterday O'cadavo previous route, around nine o'clock undertook together with great encouragement the route today would take us to Lugo.
To start the morning started with a steep climb of about two miles of good road to the top of A Barqeriza, at this point and then cool off a bit by the tough climb and the sun begins to bite we take a clue well marked that leads to the hermitage of Nuestra Señora Del Carmen. Soon we
Viladave, where there was a Franciscan community dedicated since mid-fifteenth century, to serve the pilgrims.
remains of the convent church, declared a National Monument in the Gothic style of mid-fifteenth century, has a single nave and chancel covered vault, restored in the seventeenth century by Diego Osorio Escobar. At this point
grouped us all to make us the photo of the group rigor in such wonderful place called by many Castroverde Cathedral.
Slowly and with a sun and justice without any difficulty until the last bar we will encounter until we arrived at Lugo, and that from here the way we find only vending machines for soda and snacks, and of modernism is the path, as missing some bar-shop where you take a fresh cervecina take a tirade with the locals.
continued on our way after taking a well deserved snack at the bar that was attached to the Casa do Concello and continued our way up here Souto de Torres where we do a few photos on a beautiful cross and took the opportunity to freshen up a bit.
From this point we continued our journey to Santa Maria de Gondar where we stop for lunch at a wonderful private house with beautiful courtyard shaded by a vine and a vending machine where we could quench our thirst and enjoy our sandwiches donated by the organization, As always do not lose detail at any time.
After lunch and a small but well-deserved rest, we start our way back toward the coveted Lugo, now we have to walk a little road that is the least we like but from time to time we have no choice and that all lined up like school india proseguimos nuestro camino.
Al poco nos salimos de la carretera para coger un camino que se nos hizo a todos interminable por lo monótono que era y por que el sol nos estaba machacando duramente y la gente ya empezada a dar verdaderos síntomas de cansancio y agotamiento, pero bueno poco a poco y dándonos ánimos unos a otros llegamos por fin y derrotados del todo a la entrada amurallada de Lugo.
Ya casi sin fuerzas nos dirigimos hacia al albergue de peregrinos para que nos sellaran la credencial, una vez sellada visita relámpago a la catedral ya que no disponíamos de mucho tiempo y por fin y gracias a Dios a sentarse en una terraza de la Plaza Mayor a tomar una más que merecida jarra de cerveza helada, por cierto con el calor y la sed I had struck me much more of this beer all Lugo, I hope to visit more calm in the next step.
Distance: 28 miles.
remain to Santiago: 100 miles
Time: 7 hours.
Difficulty: Medium-High (due to the monotony of the last few miles and the sun of righteousness which we fell down all afternoon).
One word: sun (finally).
first ramp of the day between livestock and a beautiful morning sun is grateful to those hours.
First grouping in the morning.
Arrival and visit the beautiful village of Viladave.
Perrin An occasional surprise and welcomes us to see so many people walk past their houses.
A beautiful forest in the middle of the road that protected us from the intense sun, as will be appreciated.
A bit of road before facing the last few miles before reaching the coveted Lugo.
THE FIRST DRINK BEER
The first sip of beer after a stage of the Camino de Santiago or why not, after any mountain road is the only worthwhile. The following growing seasons, only leave you a sense of squandered wealth. The first drink! Begins long before the throat and lips, as shown in last stretch of the road when you start to dream that cup removed from the freezer frost containing this nectar of the gods called beer thirsty.
outcrops on the lips and the gold bubbly, fresh amplified by the foam, and slowly in the mouth a bitter pleasure. It seems over the first drink, almost like the day's stage!. He drinks in one sitting, in reality everything is written, the amount, that neither too little nor much that is the only ideal, the immediate welfare topped with a sigh, a click of the tongue or as important as such a silence, I guess this would be the favorite drink of the Apostle Santiago (Santi for friends).
At the same time after the first drink we know that the best for last.
support the glass, and even away a little, taste the color, false honey, cold sun.
in the vessel wall read with satisfaction the concrete name of the beer that we requested. And contents can be queried, I think it tells us about the hard road carried the day here, to Lugo.
The following drinks are just as tasty but to try to remember that first drink after walking. A definite pleasure
bitter drink to forget that great first drink.
The beautiful beer in the photo was taken in the Plaza Mayor of Lugo with great satisfaction after the hard day's walk.
Pablo Lara.
