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A good manageable day on the Camino. One of our favourite aspects is meeting people from all over the world. On the Frances route we met people from over 30 countries. It’s our third day and the count stands at seven. We are still in touch with Diego, the young man from Mexico we met on the second day of our first Camino.
We started the morning leaving our room at Casa Da Vila. Clank went the heavy automatically locking front door... with our hiking poles left behind. Two texts and it was arranged for them to be transported to our next stop. C made me a walking stick out of a branch from the eucalyptus forest.
We found our way to the Romanesque church to find our guiding arrows, and discovered a family of four taking pictures. They were a retired mom and dad and their daughter and son-in-law, originally from Colombia, now living in Florida.
We walked the entire morning with them. What a great experience they’re having walking the Camino together. Hmmmm, Bryant and Sammy? Mari and KC? Elina and Sean, it would wear those boys out (in a good way)?
The first half of the day was through farm communities, corn and grapes, goats and sheep.
And dogs. This was the most well behaved Camino dog we’ve met:
We split paths with the family as we were ready for lunch. It was an instant replay of last night’s pilgrim meal, with a better version of the soup. In fact that was the third similar meal in a row as we had dinner leftovers for brekkie.
The second half was on cobblestones all the way to Barcelos. It’s hard on the feet, but there are always lengths of narrow sandy shoulder to give the feet a break.
And now we’re at a wonderful hostel with shared laundry and kitchen. We took the opportunity to cook and do laundry.
Today ended up being not so bad, elevation-wise. Tomorrow might be another story.
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