Dark as Night

Ok - while not quite but we had quite the thunderstorm rolling off the oceanI had originally stopped at a little café right on the Camino. There were about a dozen other pilgrims arriving as well. While I got a table and invited other pilgrims to join since there weren’t enough tables for each group, the other groups split up and got in line for their coffee and pastry. So, I decided to put my pack back on and head out for the next café it was just down the road. About halfway there rain drops started to falling on my head then they started getting heavier and came down quicker. I ended up jogging the last hundred yards or so to the next café. It was a tiny café, more local than Pilgrim. However, there were two other pilgrims - a couple from Germany that had just entered along with about half a dozen locals who entered just after I entered. The Germans and I hunkered down for about an hour and a half until the rain subsided the thunder stop the lightning abated and we took off that little thunderstorm dropped the temperature and it was cold.

Before all the fun started I had a great morning even though it was a bit brisk, but not too cold. Lots of greenery I ran across a few cows and was just enjoying the morning. The one difference from walking along the boardwalk on the coast after Porto is that in this region it seems the coast is used for agriculture. Long ago or the days where we’d be passing by Vineyards and Olive Grove and individual farmland which was all local farming - now it seems like the farmland is all larger plots not just individuals planting theircrops.Meer informatie