Hola! Day 42 - 35k - pushing on to Santiago. Big day walking, through leafy small lanes, The trees now have leaves vs when we started just bare branches. Lots of small, stone walled paddocks with a few Friesian cows - maybe 10 - ie v small herds. Just walked and walked to a nice hotel, our own room and a nice bar Restaurant!! Spent The evening with an Italian, Rosella, and a lady from Valencia, Mercedes. Mercedes wanted to learn English so we did a deal - I will ...

Buenas! Day 41 - 18k, weather cloudy, cool, good walking. But I have had enough of this - especially the albergues, too many other people in my space. The numbers of peregrinos has tripled at least since we left Sarria - not good and it is not going to get any better!! I think we might have to stay in a hotel or 3 for the next while. That plus most of good stuff to see has already happened. I think I might have a bit of an attitude problem too - probably should h...

Buenas a todas! Day 40- 21k today, rain in the morning, fine in the arvo. Tried my new orange poncho (see pic) over the old rain coat and the system worked - so very happy. Early start, walked without breakfast- was a mistake because by The time I got food (10k) I could eat a horse. Rolling country, very green, Stone fences, lots of small villages with farmyards and cow poo blending with Camino trail - lots of agricultural odours. Looks like they make a lot of si...

¡Hola! Day 38- 16k, delightful green hilly country with beef cattle (limousin I think) in the stone walled fields. And no rain - cloudy cool, perfect walking weather. Started off The day At the dreaded organico albergue with a tiny little muesli and yoghurt breakfast - left hungry then had to walk about 8k to a café and get some bacon and eggs - hooray I'm a carnivore! They tasted fantastic. The walk was all downhill so I was pumping - "Eye of The Tiger" has b...

Buenos! Day 36 - 22k all downhill in the rain - soaked through the coat thank God for wool. Walked most of it with my new amigo José, from Malaga in the south of España. José was practicing his Ingles y I was practicing my Español. José was a bus driver for the city of Malaga - for the last 27 yrs. All is wet and green, cows with bells around their necks grazing on quite steep slopes. They obviously spend most of their time indoors - probably an uneconomic ...