Mountains again

After a better than expected sleep in the dorm at last night's hostel the path set off from a few meters away, long and straight until coffee about 4km in. Then another coffee after a few more small villages in increasingly beautiful countryside. Scrubby spanish oak woodlands that as we went gently up became gallician pines (tall ones like in England) and then the little oaks again. My foot was hurting a bit so I distra ted myself by counting 31 different wildflowers over less than 1km. These included everything from thistles to heather, clover, thyme,broom, daisies, lavender and wild dog roses to things I don't know the names of. If you were here Panda, you would be walkin g v ery slowly collecting seeds and photos
After Rabanal, a lovely village which survives on the camino, the hill became steeper and I enjoyed a 6km uphill walk through stunning woods. We are now in our hotel for today, looking over the moun tains and thinking about a shower. There's a very black cloud overhead so we might finally get wet tomorrow.
Apologies for typos and any out of focus photos. I didn't bring the right glasses, nd am usually too tired tocheck on what I'm posting properly.Les mer