Yesterday I left Madrid and the tourist part of my trip to head to Sarria to start my Camino journey. I caught the train, which travelled at speeds in excess of 230kph. The speed is displayed on a screen, and I stopped looking at that point and figured I didn’t need to know. The train only went as far as Ourense, where we were advised to disembark. My limited grasp of the language translated that there was a train strike and we would be transported to Sarria by bus. What was happening in fact, was there was a bus strike and the drivers had formed a picket line outside the station. Police were bought in to break the picket line and let the taxis in. We waited patiently for our turn and I really wanted to go talk to the picketers maybe their demands were reasonable, but the armed police made me rethink that. After a couple of hours we managed to get a taxi with an awesome driver who told us ‘he didn’t need to do the Camino de Santiago as he had no sin’. 😂😇 He had a sense of humour and we laughed a bit during the hours trip. Our late arrival meant we were eating dinner after 9pm. Not a good idea. Our accommodation for the night was at the private Albergue Casa Maria’s, clean and comfortable enough for me to get a good night rest.