After a long days walk (14 some miles) we get to this cool HILLTOP town of Circuaqui... did I tell you it was a hilltop? Narrow steep streets. Population 500. We stay in a local private Alberque. Get a room for 2 this time instead of sleeping in a communal bedroom. Climb to the third floor... small room has a balcony and BEAUTIFUL views over the tiny town and rolling green hills down below. Absolutely awesome! We have a peregrino´s dinner (set menu for pilgrims) down stairs after going to mass at the church, which is front of the Albergue. Very cool...also the shortest mass we´ve ever been too... 25 minutes, including communion (for you catholics out there) Went to dinner down below in the 'basement' which looked like an old stone bunker. Also very interesting as we sat in a stone room (walls, floor, rounded ceiling) all stone, and had dinner with four other germans. Here´s the interesting thing. Two of the germans were an older couple, another gentleman was a single guy traveling alone and the other woman was an older german woman... 72 years old!! Traveling alone! She was particularly interesting... She said she had alway dreamed of walking El Camino but didn´t have the time.. Her words of wisdom were that she had wished she had done the things she had always dreamed of earlier in life... so Do Them Now! she said. Do them when you are younger because time gets away from you. Interesting!
The german couple... mid-sixties... had been walking the road for three years now... since somewhere in northern Germany... So far they have walked OVER 2500 kms!! That km´s but still that´s a long long way! In fact we have met many different people that have been walking this road for many years and from destinations far away... One gentleman said today on the bus... Oh, did I let that slip?.. that he had walked over 2000 miles not km´s, from Amsterdam. (yea, we took a bus for a bit, but more on that later).
Pretty fun... Still having problems with the picture download. Will get that going soon. Later All...
Sounds like you are having a lot of fun. I can hardly wait to see the pictures. You are building a lot of memories. I liked the note about what to bring the next time. By the way the Decorah Eagles are getting really big with big feet too. Real big feet!
ReplyDeleteMJ I remeneber the hill when I did el camino it with the bicicle. There is a nice fountain next to the church where I had my feet wetting for quite long time.
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I'm not worthy....
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