Day 14
After a very disruptive night and a breakfast of coffe and bread and jam (pattern again)we started our day at about 8am. A lot of very steep hills and low valleys. The day is really hot again - where is fall! We stopped at Villafranca at a lovely hotel ...beautiful grounds where we had a coffee and biscuit. It was a very steep clim out of Villafranca and there were lots of pilgrims - soon they would all go their own pace and we´d be alone - each of us also going different paces also sometimes losing sight of one another. The landscape has changed from vineyards to agriculture - hay and fields of sunflowers - sadly they are long past blooming but it is neat to see them stretch for acres. Below our feet the path is mostly rocky which makes it very hard to keep your balance especially near the end of the day, when the sun is making us crazy! Thank goodness for poles which help us keep our balance. We had bought lunch in Villafanca to eat on the path as we were going 12 km without a village. We spread out the space blanket in a little bit of shade - sat down, removed our boots (heaven) and cut into the bread cheese and ham with a swiss army knife. Dessert was yogurt and a couple of chocolate bars! yum ! Mext stop was San Juan de Ortega - another beautiful church to tour and a bar for some limon! (lemonade) no beer yet as we still have 3.5 km to walk for our last stop of the day in Ages. We have a room with 4 single beds and basically our own bathroom.....its like luxury after last night!
Today we did 28.6 km tomorrow we get to Burgos.
Tonight dinner is paella!
thanks for all your support and coments.
pilgrims four. xx
posted by Muriel @ 10:02
3 Comments
3 Comments:
How wonderfult o read your blog. It sounds like a very exciting adventure, and commitment. I have just read and caught up with your travels today. The local scenary sounds beautiful Those beers at the end of the day sound pretty welcome too, Best wishes to all of you. Stephanie Hackett
May have considered joining you if I'd known about all the beer & wine! Seriously sounds like a truly epic journey ~ expect the song "these boots were made for walking" has taken on a whole new meaning! Look forward to seeing the pics when you return.
Currently on Quadra Island, forecasting 110mm of rain tonight. Should we send you some? Equally you might like the loan of Sam's bike (see your email)
Martin.
My mother the pilgrim! Crazy. I an so jealous here in the rain and gloom. Sounds like a great adventure, can't wait to see the pictures.
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