thank you to all of you who have posted comments it means a lot to know that we have your interest and support. Today we arrived in Santo Domingo de Calzada the walk was reasonably flat with one ginormous (big) hill which seemed to go on forever I think it took the best part of 45 mins to walk up it even the horrid cyclists who normally whizz by, giving us a fright, had to get off and walk (hee hee).
We came across a couple of New Zealanders who were peering into a murky pond which was full of enormous irradascent green frogs speckled in gold I think Nikki was on the verge of kissing one in the hope of getting a more handsome replacement than the slow moving old man she has saddled herself with...
There are some increasingly unusual people on this stretch, we came across a frenchman who is doing his 7th Camino (he walks in tennis shoes) we often see a couple from Quebec who are pushing a 2 seater baby pusher (with one 4 month old baby inside), we have also heard of a south african, whom we have yet to meet, who is doing the walk in bare feet.
Eyes play strange tricks when it comes to distances it is almost as if they have a telephoto lense so as soon as the destination town is seen it seems as if it is very close only to get further and further away as you trudge towards it..like a dream. We have been walking towards a snow capped mountain now for 4 days and we are no closer to it so it seems..
We are now officially 555 k from our final destination of Santiago, unless of course we decide on walking on to Finistera (mmm we shall see).
We keep ourselves amused along the walk by playing word games, listening to music, and on the odd ocassion ¨playing Pooh Sticks¨ over the river.
Last night we had a lovely picnic on the banks of the river which runs through the town, fresh ham,cheese,sausage, tomatoes, cherries, and of course chocolate. As the sun set we watched a fly fisherman and listened to the clacking of the young storks high up on the rocks and on the church steeples.
Well that´s it for now, I am nervous about putting photos on this blogsite as they seem to magically reappear on Facebook...I wonder who that can be?
We came across a couple of New Zealanders who were peering into a murky pond which was full of enormous irradascent green frogs speckled in gold I think Nikki was on the verge of kissing one in the hope of getting a more handsome replacement than the slow moving old man she has saddled herself with...
There are some increasingly unusual people on this stretch, we came across a frenchman who is doing his 7th Camino (he walks in tennis shoes) we often see a couple from Quebec who are pushing a 2 seater baby pusher (with one 4 month old baby inside), we have also heard of a south african, whom we have yet to meet, who is doing the walk in bare feet.
Eyes play strange tricks when it comes to distances it is almost as if they have a telephoto lense so as soon as the destination town is seen it seems as if it is very close only to get further and further away as you trudge towards it..like a dream. We have been walking towards a snow capped mountain now for 4 days and we are no closer to it so it seems..
We are now officially 555 k from our final destination of Santiago, unless of course we decide on walking on to Finistera (mmm we shall see).
We keep ourselves amused along the walk by playing word games, listening to music, and on the odd ocassion ¨playing Pooh Sticks¨ over the river.
Last night we had a lovely picnic on the banks of the river which runs through the town, fresh ham,cheese,sausage, tomatoes, cherries, and of course chocolate. As the sun set we watched a fly fisherman and listened to the clacking of the young storks high up on the rocks and on the church steeples.
Well that´s it for now, I am nervous about putting photos on this blogsite as they seem to magically reappear on Facebook...I wonder who that can be?
