What an amazing experience it is for me to have my grown kids spend some time with me on the camino. My daughter spent 10 days in 2005 and it was so wonderful to have her there with me. Now my son and his wife started this section of the camino with me in Saint Jean Pied-de-Port and my son has come back to end it with me. A really special treat for me to have the three of them here with me.
Today was a somewhat short but really pleasant day of walking - sometimes out in the hot sun, sometimes in the cool shade of the paths that are like tunnels through the trees. We passed through village after village where we sometimes stopped to eat or drink. The names continue to sound a bit strange - Carballal, Barriero, A Peroxa, Boente, Castañeda and Ribadiso do Baixo. We are beginning to regularly pass through eucalytus forest plantations which smell wonderful! And as usual, up and up we go and down and down we go.
It is very different walking in this section where there are so many people who started in Sarria and have only a five or six day journey. It seems a bit sad to me that they have missed out on the camaraderie of the longer journey although I must say they all look so much cleaner and stylish than the longer term walkers look! We regularly run into people we have met earlier on the path and enjoy lunch breaks or pre-dinner breaks with them. Yesterday after the walk we ran into a couple we had met at Orisson. As it happens they are no longer a couple but are still good friends and are finishing the camino together. We sat with them for the evening and had a mixture of silly laughs and more serious camino conversations with them over drinks and small bits of food.
Our lovely albergue lady gave us a small room to ourselves for the same price as the dorm and then folded all of our laundry for us when it was dry. We stayed at the Albergue da Fonte which was just great. The woman in charge was so helpful and kind.
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