Day 24 Sunday

Today we started in the dark at 7am wanting to avoid the heat of yesterday (temps of upwards to 30 degrees is not pleasant with a 15 lbs pack and hills!)  There were a lot of little villages - almost every few km it seemed.  A lot of the trail was beside a roadway.  We stopped for coffee and also to pick up fruit, chocolate milk, cookies.  We need to keep nibbles on hand as it is possible to be stuck without food at times.  We are staying at Las Herridas Hospital.  Funny name....quite a few towns called Hospital. 
Joanie was having a nap so Jan, Sandy and I set off to find out if there was any internet available. It was still blazing hot - we stopped in the first bar - we KNEW they had wifi but they said no they did not!  We walked on and ran into Welsh Hilly and Hannicka.  We checked the alberque for wifi...no luck.  They directed us down the road to another bar....full of hunters....one bar girl.  They were all very rude!!! They had their dogs in small locked carts - poor thinghs were stuffed in- very inhumane - in fact we thought one of them was actually dead!  It was awful . quite disturbing. We gave up on wifi and returned to our hotel.  Went to our bar and had a couple of glasses of wine to kill time till bed.  Wine here can´t be very strong as we drink a lot of it and beer and it has no effect.
The trouble with these tiny villages is there is nothing to do but eat.  We are all wishing we had brought a book along, but of course we didn´t because of the weight issue.,  At the bar we met 2 girls from the USA - they had done a different camino last year which they enjoyed much more than the Frances route.  Primitiveo ...it was more northern and more rural.  We didn´t have dinner - just wine, an appy and peanuts!