Villafranca to Las Herrerias

For those playing along at home, I can offer an updated critter list:

Sheep🐑
Horse🐎
Chickens🐓
Cat🐈
Pig🐷
Dog🐕
Cow🐄
Falcon🦅
Fox🦊
Lizard🦎
Goat🐐
African grey🦜 (randomly)
Goose🪿
Donkey🫏
Slug🪱
Hairy caterpillar🐛
Rabbit🐇

It took me a minute to add all those emojis so please appreciate this post as it so rightly deserves.

Still awaiting my badger sighting.

Today was long, and I'm weary, but only slightly. It was lovely. Much woods! More figs! My latest start yet, 9.10am, trotted 20km and got in about 3.5 hours thereafter. Tiny town (one street), tiny albergue, it's dreary and drizzly out, which is quite nice to be honest.

Right now I'm eavesdropping on a conversation between a Greek woman about my age and an older Australian couple. She is walking from León to Santiago with her 13 year old dog who she adopted from a stray 🥹🥹 So, obviously, absolutely obsessed with THEM.Read more