Leaving Vega de Valcarce feels like lifetimes ago...we have walked over half way and right now we are in a small village that actually has internet called Eirexe. We stayed last night in a great albergue with a room to ourselves. Dinner tasted so good - salad, huevos frites and potates frites with red wine. After walking 20+ kilometers yesterday, food and wine and a shower finish a day off perfectly.
The countryside is beautiful...patchworks of fields and forests, rolling hills. I have several times looked back over my shoulder to take in the magnitude of what we have walked, especially the mountains. We actually walked over those! Wow. Walking slows down the tempo. There is so much to take in - the beautiful wildflowers, hedgerows, trees, cows, chickens, horses, even the old, old stone houses and barns. I feel as though I have stepped back in time.
We wash our clothes by hand because we get to as we walk our Camino. Today we passed an older woman washing clothes by hand and beating them with a stick...she has to. Different worlds.
Everyone we pass and see says ¨Buen Camino¨ - ¨Good Camino¨ -such a generous sweet blessing from all of the locals as we walk through their villages. We are not the first peregrinos (pilgrims) who pass through their town, and far from the last. We are one of many -today, yesterday and tomorrow.
I am walking the Camino and loving it. I am here now. And I will be back to walk the whole thing. What a blessing. What a gift. It is the way. It is my way.
Buenos dias, and mucho amor.
xo
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