My Camino Journey

The Camino provides! 7.30.2012

The lesson of the day.  Each day walking so far  has been filled with wonders big and small.  Today I left Puente la Reina and walked through Maneru, which had one of the worst up hills climbs yet.  But not having put much distance in I decided to go the the next town of Cirauqui.  Half way to the next town I realized my leg was getting a bit swollen and thought I really needed to find ice first thing before it gets out of control.  Well wouldn’t you know it, less than 1 kilometer from Cirauqui, a pilgrim came up behind me (as tends to happen all the time given my pace).  Before I can even really see who it is, a man is asking me if I need ice.  Can you imagine my astonishment?  The last place possible to get ice was at least 10k back!  Yet he had a plastic bag full of it.  Exactly what I needed and the timing was great as it saved me looking for the local market which I later found  up a series of steep steep streets.  I really wish I had gotten the man’s name.

I stayed in Albergue Maralotx  which was quite nice.  The proprietor’s husband made the pilgrims dinner which was amazing!  The dinner started with a spinach soup and was served with wine made locally.  Awesome good home cooked pasta and meatballs. Followed by some sort of custard dessert.  Well worth the 10 euros.

I noticed the graffiti next to the yellow arrow (yellow arrows are markers for which direction to go) so I stopped and turned around and it was beautiful.  The sun had just come up!