* It's amazing how we can communicate even though the other person knows no English and we know no Spanish, although the translater app on the phone also helps.
* Meeting Luca, a 72 year old Frenchman, who is walking his 8th solo Camino.
* Walking through a countryside of forests, vineyards, crops, olive groves, rolling hills, mountain backdrops, with a distant village coming into view every 5 to 10 km.
* Picking red poppies growing wild on the edge of the track on Anzac Day to put on our packs, and then explaining their significance to pilgrims from other countries that we met throughout the day.
* Sharing an evening meal on Anzac Day with several other Aussies, standing to say the Ode together, then a toast of "lest we forget" with a glass of Spanish wine.
* Meeting a lone traveller, or a couple, and immediately forming a connection, especially with other Aussies, then spending the next several hours walking together, registering into the same accommodation for the night, then sharing a meal.
* Arriving at a village after a 20+ km walk, tired, footsore, sometimes wet and cold, turning a corner and there is the friendly face of someone you met the day before, telling you where to find a good room for the night.
* Being dissapointed when walking through villages that the churches are locked, unable to be viewed from inside, only to discover that most evenings in the towns where we stay, the church opens for a Pilgrims Mass, allowing us to see the magnificant architecture and decoration hidden within.
Thanks for the update Wendy....really pleased the rain has stopped for you....it has here too....like a winters morning here...amazing the 72 year old French guy was has walked it 8 times solo....inspiring...there is hope for this 67 year old yet.....
ReplyDeleteBe great if you were both here with us.A short day tomorrow. We are doing a detour to an old historic village called Canas. Only 12 km tomorrow. Almost a rest day.
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