Castrojerez to Fromista

Finally, a hostel that served breakfast at 6 so we could eat before we left...

Another cool morning weather wise, but we warmed up early once we hit the hill. We met and walked most of the day with Nelson and Zoe from the states, really nice people. The craziest thing was that on our very first day of walking, we met Canadian Jack, who had completed 11 caminos, and he mentioned he was trying to catch two friends who had started a few days earlier. When we left him on day three he was catching a bus..Anyway I mentioned to Nelson that we had met a Canadian on first day who had walked the Camino and Nelson said are you talking about Jack...it turned out that Nelson and Zoe were the two people Jack had bussed to meet and that they had spent some time together in Logrono and were planning on meeting him in Carrion tomorrow night, do we get to catch up with Jack again which we are looming forward to.

Girls are back to full fitness and pretty much walked by themselves, and we met them for lunch.

We are really enjoying the messeta which on most of the camino youtube channels gets a bad wrap due to lack of views, however we disagree, we even walked past a church that was once a pilgrims hospital and was over a 1000 years old and you can stay there.

The walk after lunch was mainly beside the Canal de Castilla, which was built in the 18th century as a way of transporting goods, it nows serves as the main source for irrigation of the regions' farms. The walk did drag on... you can jump on a small boat if you chose to, but we didn't.

Fromista is a very cool little town with a few churches, one which put on a concert for pilgrams tonight, which was appreciated.

Tomorrow is a rest day, only walking 20kms as option two was 35km.Weiterlesen