Waking up and meeting for Breakfast with some of my new ´friends´ Rosa from Italy, Hazel and Donal from Kent we headed out in a torrential rain storm...and the controversy of poncho vs. jacket, poncho wins (Ta Da) hands down. After only 2 miles, my new companions started to look for a place to have cóffee, here is where we parted ways. I continued for the next 5 hours alone, sidestepping the many snails (which look like a large cigar wearing a tuxedo), stopping at the crosses of those Pilgrims who passed away along the Camino and reflecting. OK so I was also thinking, are you freaking kidding me (remember the what goes up, must come down thing) well I went down and down and down along loose stones and sand...I arrived in Larrasoana and found a place at the Municipal Abergue. The sheet and pillow were rubber, blue in fact, on metal beds and mine was next to the bathrooms (too close! to the men´s...). To my surprise I found Antonino who had left earlier in the day, and towards the day´s end arrived Donal, Hazel and just before the Pilgrim´s meal, Rosa...so nice to see friendly faces! I enjoyed the time alone, nice to just be walking along trails in such lush scenery, I felt blessed. I met a family with a 10 year old son from Spain, A daughter, mother and grandmother from Germany, a single Mother and her 12 year old daughter from Portugal...so many families making the Pilgrimage together gave me many moments of smiles! It was a hard day, the decline on the loose stones were difficult, but to share a meal at the end of the day, with those I had met before I started and those I added along the way...
Oh and remember the where I slept I mentioned earlier, lets just say a few gentlemen had a bit too much of the Pilgrims wine and awakened me for hours for apparently what goes in must also come up and out...needless to say they used all the T Paper and thankfully everyone must have read the same book as we all had our own, allowing for a crisis of the white paper kind to be averted!
Side Note: The Camino is not kind to all, Isabeta arrived with blisters the size, well of her entire foot with toes bleeding. We put string through the blisters and gave her some Advil as well as some mole skin, it was hard to watch her walk even to the dinner seeing her feet in such bad shape!
Waking up and meeting for Breakfast with some of my new ´friends´ Rosa from Italy, Hazel and Donal from Kent we headed out in a torrential rain storm...and the controversy of poncho vs. jacket, poncho wins (Ta Da) hands down. After only 2 miles, my new companions started to look for a place to have cóffee, here is where we parted ways. I continued for the next 5 hours alone, sidestepping the many snails (which look like a large cigar wearing a tuxedo), stopping at the crosses of those Pilgrims who passed away along the Camino and reflecting. OK so I was also thinking, are you freaking kidding me (remember the what goes up, must come down thing) well I went down and down and down along loose stones and sand...I arrived in Larrasoana and found a place at the Municipal Abergue. The sheet and pillow were rubber, blue in fact, on metal beds and mine was next to the bathrooms (too close! to the men´s...). To my surprise I found Antonino who had left earlier in the day, and towards the day´s end arrived Donal, Hazel and just before the Pilgrim´s meal, Rosa...so nice to see friendly faces! I enjoyed the time alone, nice to just be walking along trails in such lush scenery, I felt blessed. I met a family with a 10 year old son from Spain, A daughter, mother and grandmother from Germany, a single Mother and her 12 year old daughter from Portugal...so many families making the Pilgrimage together gave me many moments of smiles! It was a hard day, the decline on the loose stones were difficult, but to share a meal at the end of the day, with those I had met before I started and those I added along the way...
Oh and remember the where I slept I mentioned earlier, lets just say a few gentlemen had a bit too much of the Pilgrims wine and awakened me for hours for apparently what goes in must also come up and out...needless to say they used all the T Paper and thankfully everyone must have read the same book as we all had our own, allowing for a crisis of the white paper kind to be averted!
Side Note: The Camino is not kind to all, Isabeta arrived with blisters the size, well of her entire foot with toes bleeding. We put string through the blisters and gave her some Advil as well as some mole skin, it was hard to watch her walk even to the dinner seeing her feet in such bad shape!
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