I’d been anticipating the walk to O Cebreiro for months. It is an amazing, gorgeous city. The distance from Villafranca del Bierzo to O Cebreiro is 18.6 miles and I was ready.
I only got 3 km and my body quit working. I started using my trekking poles just to balance myself, and all of a sudden I started leaning hard to the left. I couldn’t straighten up. Shuffling a few steps was all I could do before I had to find something to lean on.
A lot of people passed and ask if I was ok and, of course, I said I was fine. No one could have helped me since there was no motor traffic, and they couldn’t carry me. It took me two hours to do less than two miles where there was a bar.
I practically crawled into the bar. But instead of the proprietor calling a cab, he took me to my hotel the remainder of the way–24 kilometers.
I recovered overnight but can walk around the village but have a hard time on steps and balance issues.
So while my friend Jeff Johnson does the Camino, I will do the CABino between hotels.
Church of Santa María la Real (836 AD): Known as the oldest church on the French Way of the Camino de Santiago. It is a humble pre-Romanesque construction with thick stone walls that played a critical role in sheltering pilgrims.
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