Day 5. On my way again to Lorca

Siesta lasted half an hour - woke up when the sun crawled round and found me. The screen shots show my siesta place. The path had been extremely difficult, steeply up, a washed out path which would be very muddy and slippery during rain. However here like elsewhere in Europe there has not been any rain for ages, so at least the path was solid, but not flat and extremely difficult to walk. I saw no other walker, just the cyclist going down the other way. So if I had had an accident nowbody would have found me.

Which reminds me, as I was happily walking along yesterday afternoon I had a call from the Guardia Civil - I have registered with them on their app "AlertCops" - you can call them if you need help - they find you via the GPS system. You just press a button and they come. I had the option of them following me permanently which I chose. They asked very nicely was I ok. I have been wondering - there had been a question "Do you have any problems like bad hearing or other handicaps?" To which my answer was "Old age - 86". So may be they are keeping a longdistance eye on me.

Anyway the day was longer than yesterday and very hot. After my morning siesta I had a long pause for lunch at Mañeru - mixed salad not available, but the young woman prepared a large plate of tomatoes she had brought for herself from her father-in-law's vegetable garden with some tuna . Excellent!

By the time I left it was extremely hot. For quite a while I was overtaken by other pilgrims. And finally I was alone struggling along my way.
And when I arrived the only private double room had been given to some other people because the albergue people thought we were not coming - I had sent a message , but they had not seen it. And then Andrea arrived. So they checked with another albergue which only opened a month ago. And they had a proper double room available. With a private bathroom which the room in the other albergue didn't have. So here we are now happily installed. Ready to go to sleep....Read more