This town hosts a jousting tournament each year. We are experiencing an unusual autumn this week as the temperature will stay in the low 80's, a bit warm for walking in the afternoon. We were both glad to reach this town and call it a day.
We spent the morning walking with a very nice 31 year old Italian named Alejandro. I gave him some sage advice and in return his faster walking pace gave us sore feet. He had a fascinating story about his mother who became blind at a very young age and had four children who she had never laid eyes on. We exchanged childhood memories and no matter how much I embellished mine, his was more fascinating. We separated so Laura and I can take a two hour lunch to recover and catch our breaths. A couple of hours of double Cokes and beers plus a couple of foot long bocadillas, the temps were up and we were ready to go down for a siesta.
But off we went for a brutal final 2.5 more hours of walking in the hot sun. We made a pledge to start our walks earlier this week and no more hour long breakfast chats as we did with an adorable South African couple this morning. They had done the Porto Camino in Portugal and were now walking the Camino Frances backwards, RETROgrinos. You'll find their description as I have finished updating the peregrino nomenclature from a couple of days back. I added a few more but became very bored with it as you'll find when you read it.
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