Hospital de Bruma | Rocky Walks

September 12, 2017 Presedo to Hospital de Bruma 8.5 miles (13.7 according to my best calculation from Eroski and JWS) since I did not walk it!

When I got back from having an early dinner last night I got ready for a shower and had a horrible surprise; the blister (ampolla in Spanish) that had started out small in Miño had grown to a huge size!

I left the picture at the bottom just in case anyone was eating.

Anyway, the only thing to do at that point was to operate. I had to be careful though to not get it infected. I’d had that problem before!

After it was done I got it ready for the night and went to sleep.

Staying at albergues has its good and bad points. The good part is that they’re economical and you can meet people there. We had a good group of people, but the bad part is that people snore (I’m one of those) and also people want to get up at different times the next morning. The other bad part for me is that usually the beds are too hard.

I usually end up waking up when the first people do and although I’m a sound sleeper it’s easiest for me just to stay up.

So I eventually got dressed and had a hard time walking in my shoes because of the rubbing against where my blister was located.

The albergue as I was leaving

Walking the kilometer to breakfast was painful due to the blister and beachside my knee was acting up again.

I had to make a decision. Did I think that I could hobble 8 miles like this? Even with the recent changes this was supposed to be the hardest part of the Camino. So I decided to rest again and took a taxi to Hosoital de Bruma. I hadn’t slept well 2 nights in a row so I thought that I should get some rest.