390Km done 309Km to go. Blisters 1. Mantras 8900
I´ve (at last) passed the half way point. It´s been a bit ghastly thinking that it would be quicker to go back than to go ahead, but no longer. But I´m tired and am now a proper pilgrim, having cultivated a blister. The monastery I was planning to stay in is closed with bed-bugs, so pretty mediaeval still. There are pilgrims hospitals and cemetries all along the way. Its not so long ago that lice and fleas carried typhus and plague and not just annoyance.
The scenery has been of enormous wheatfields and long (very long) Roman roads. One picture (disappointing) shows ´houses built into the hillside, with chimneys coming out of the grass like hobbits homes and (you probably can´t see it) TV aerials just to show what century we are in. The fiddle playing family are Canadian, travelling with donkeys along my route, sweet kids, crazy parents.
love to all
1 comment:
Wow, beautiful countryside you're passing through. One of the parents here is Spanish, she told me her town lies on the route to Santiago.
You are doing great, endurance!!! You keep meeting angels on the way.
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