Tuesday Afternoon

Sunday night was another multi national meal culminating in an Italian guy and I going out for a pint with a young German guy who had just walked away from his father’s business because he hated it. We naturally gave him the benefit of our experience and hope he takes all the advice on board and ignores it.
Only did about 17km on Monday cos we were a bit knackered and ended up in a rather strange place which was run by a piano playing Enya freak. Had a super pilgrim’s menu at a local bar with an Irish lady and then ended up back at our hostel having drinks with another collection of people who we had never met before.

22km today. We keep running in to Larry & Desi from Sydney who we met on the first night. We’ve never actually stayed in the same place as them since but we keep meeting.

The walking is great. It’s rolling countryside, very green with loads of poppies and cornflowers in the field edges. There’s still quite a bit of snow on the mountains in the distance. The best bit has been the evenings. The friendliness of the other pilgrims/walkers is amazing. It’s so easy to strike up conversations with anyone. We’ve spent an hour this afternoon with a 73 year old German lady who is doing the Camino a week at a time. Thank goodness loads of people speak English, but it makes you despair of language teaching in English schools.