Quite a short walk today so left at 7 and stopped at every village enroute to Rabinal. We have now left the meseta and are approaching the Cantabrian mountains. The landscape is hilly and tree covered, much more like parts of Scotland. As usual met many familiar faces including Oscar again. He gave Susan his phone no. and invited us to Buenos Aires. Susan has added it to the ever increasing list of places we should go to…. Went for a light lunch of calamari and got back to the hotel just before the predicted storm hit. It was quite spectacular with dramatic thunder and lightning. Anybody caught in it while doing the next section (steep and tricky underfoot) would be finding it quite daunting. Wandered out at teatime when the storm had abated, met up again with Andy, Marco from Brazil and June and Ralph, originally from Ireland and South Africa and now staying in Sydney. We all had a very entertaining dinner together. Susan was telling the story about our original plan to arrive in Santiago on my 65th birthday and Marco quietly arranged for a wee cake and a candle to appear at the end of the meal. Marco is a lovely fellow with long dark hair and certainly doesn’t look his 50 years. I said that in Scotland he would be known as a ‘lucky bastard’! The company found this highly amusing as I knew they would.
Camino 2022 
A very happy birthday Jim – not quite sure if this was the other day?!
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