Beautiful stage to Arcade

Headtorch on, and we departed in the dark. As it was a Sunday, the streets were deserted. All you could hear was the Cockerells' Cock-a-doddle-looing, as we wandered past. After going slightly off the path, we stumbled across a Café. Judging by the stares of the locals, it was clearly not a regular pilgrims stop. Luckily, Pilar's language skills secured us breakfast and directions back to the path. The scenery was stunning, although the route was quite challenging. At one point, a lady lost her footing and fell over in front of us. Red Cross First responder Pilar was straight on the scene, administering first aid. Fortunately, the lady had enough natural padding in her backside that she avoided serious injury. As the day wore on, it became very hot, I kept on having to remind myself that the month is March; I certainly would not want to be walking this in the summer. Eventually, we arrived at Arcade, and as the local Hotel was full, they directed us to an Albergue with ensuite rooms. The owner was slightly sceptical at renting it out to us initially as she didn't believe we were married. Fortunately, she accepted the matching wedding rings and gave us the room for 10€pp and it is actually better than some hotels we have stayed in. Another great day, only 80kms to objective and 4 days to get there...what could possibly go wrong.Weiterlesen