Robyn Westeneng

Boadilla to Carrion de los Condes
Day 18 - 26km

Well! We are half way to our destination goal of Santiago!! And it feels great!🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🤩🤩
After a nice pilgrims breakfast at our hotel, we were on the path before sunrise,(which is not hard as the sun doesn’t get up till 8 😉). The day started looking good but a fog rolled in and chilled things down for a while. We chose to walk the alternate route beside a river instead of by the highway, which was lovely, albeit 2kms longer. 🙄The landscape is starting to change as we are in the Meseta. Not so hilly and a bit barren in places.
We have made many friends already, which we meet up with at coffee stops and drinks, and meals at the end of the day, and have found everyone very friendly. Every day we encounter many pilgrims and locals, and we hear a constant shout out to us, wishing us “Buen Camino”. Really lovely. 😍
Our Spanish is getting better and I can even get them to understand my half strength coffee most of the time. 😏However, as we get further on, we are finding English more widely spoken, saving us from the daily charades challenge of making ourselves understood !! 😆Læs mere