Today is a day of mercy, relief and medical necessity! And cultural encounters of the medical kind! We have been to four hospitals to find some sort of treatment for my feet! From the way that the Spanish carry on, nobody dares get ill, sick or need medical treatment during the siesta hours! Heaven can only help you if you do! The military hospital looked very much like the photo we have attached to this blog entry! Good to look at, but not-a-lot-of-anything go...

It is day 8 of trekking and a good indication of how it is going is by me having to ask what day we are actually on! We had to write the date today and got it wrong! Our days are concerned with getting up, keeping warm and just keep on walking to the next destination. Whether it is a town, a village, a mountain pass or somewhere just out of the wind. It is not uncommon for the day to start off being about 3.5 degrees centigrade and never gets above 10! When the...