Ouch.. 31kms today! Meant to be mostly down hill this afternoon.. So not!
Last night we met some 'interesting' people in our albergue (which I swear had not very clean sheets, squeaky bunk beds and a few wackos thrown in for good measure). Lets call the nice girl from Australia Sarah, and the 62 year old hippy American Dan, because we actually didn't get their names. Sarah works in a Scottish hostel, Dan is a self funded retired engineer and ex-military. Needless to say we all had an interesting 2hr dinner conversation!
Other kooks include: the retired school principal and part owner of a behavioral and learning disability school in Sweden... (ask me anything you like about that school system); and the crazy, hilarious hostel owners and staff who run the hostel, the shop beside it and apparently the restaurant down the road that we ate at... It was seriously like where's Wally... They showed up everywhere.
Anna took me on a tour of the tiny town, called Torres del Rio, which included walking around the block, taking money out of the atm and then the special highlight was three men trying to push start a car down a narrow Spanish street that hairpin curved. Wish you all could have been there.
Today... Lots of walking, not as much down hill as the topography map showed, a sunrise and then good 1km trek around tonight city (Estella) to try to find a bed. 1st place closed, 2nd had a cue up to the street, our 3rd option saw us arrive at our 96 bed albergue. We got here with 14 places left. Anna and I got a great room, just 2 beds (instead of the usually 20+) but.. Were on the 3.5 floor, in a supply area behind a locked cage door. Its hilarious, and means we can lay all our stuff out etc. It also meant I had to climb a ladder to close the window! See the pic! Lol
Tomorrow... 22km, short-ish day, which is good for the knee trouble I managed to score today (lucky me!), followed by 24 to finish!
Must go. Parade in street for Easter.
A x
Last night we met some 'interesting' people in our albergue (which I swear had not very clean sheets, squeaky bunk beds and a few wackos thrown in for good measure). Lets call the nice girl from Australia Sarah, and the 62 year old hippy American Dan, because we actually didn't get their names. Sarah works in a Scottish hostel, Dan is a self funded retired engineer and ex-military. Needless to say we all had an interesting 2hr dinner conversation!
Other kooks include: the retired school principal and part owner of a behavioral and learning disability school in Sweden... (ask me anything you like about that school system); and the crazy, hilarious hostel owners and staff who run the hostel, the shop beside it and apparently the restaurant down the road that we ate at... It was seriously like where's Wally... They showed up everywhere.
Anna took me on a tour of the tiny town, called Torres del Rio, which included walking around the block, taking money out of the atm and then the special highlight was three men trying to push start a car down a narrow Spanish street that hairpin curved. Wish you all could have been there.
Today... Lots of walking, not as much down hill as the topography map showed, a sunrise and then good 1km trek around tonight city (Estella) to try to find a bed. 1st place closed, 2nd had a cue up to the street, our 3rd option saw us arrive at our 96 bed albergue. We got here with 14 places left. Anna and I got a great room, just 2 beds (instead of the usually 20+) but.. Were on the 3.5 floor, in a supply area behind a locked cage door. Its hilarious, and means we can lay all our stuff out etc. It also meant I had to climb a ladder to close the window! See the pic! Lol
Tomorrow... 22km, short-ish day, which is good for the knee trouble I managed to score today (lucky me!), followed by 24 to finish!
Must go. Parade in street for Easter.
A x
Another member of the bung knee club......I welcome you to my club :)
ReplyDeleteHi - Go girls! you are doing so well. Can't believe you have walked so far. Hope the feet are coping and blisters not too bad. Cheers Di and Bernie
ReplyDeleteLoving reading your blog A :) has that ladder been checked by WHS? Wouldn't want to fill out an incident report...
ReplyDeletemissing you here, Jo x
Bung knee, blisters, well it must have been soothing and a lot of laughing with the guys yous meet last night (forgot about the pain). Where the pic of the guys pushing the car
ReplyDeleteWas too busy laughing to get the car picture. Sorry dad! Jo... Not sure WHS even exists here, but I was thinking of Christine as it wobbled! Haha. A x
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