A lot is catching up

I’ve been so busy just being with Noëlle that blogging was the last thing on my mind. I’ll hit the high points. 

When we finally got off the bus in Monesterio we were starving (10am) so we shared a breakfast of two eggs, chorizo and chips. Lots of energy for the walk ahead of us. Only 21km, but we were so excited we walked the first 17 or so without a break. I was already dealing with a blister that started on the 24th and I had been told to wrap in compeed. Don’t do this. Compeed is for before a blister, just when you feel the hot spot. Anyway, we stopped for 15 minutes, balancing on one of the foot cubed markers. By the time we got to the albergue in Fuente de Cantos, Noëlle had discovered a few tiny toe blisters. 

We called the number on the door of the albergue and within 3 minutes a large car rolls up, young man (30?) jumps out and opens the door and gives us our private room, beautiful bathroom down the hall, and kitchen (where he would lay out breakfast the next morning). He quickly left to return to the family lunch. Later, in the bar across the street, as soon as we entered, a man got up to give us his table, which had a table cover to the floor and a heater underneath. He then returned a minute or so later to say “madre? Hija?” And I said si and he said “padre y, pointing to the albergue, mi hijo”. He was very proud of his son. 

On to Zafra.......later