Camino Day 11: Santo Domingo to Belorado

Total Distance: 24km
Step Count: 36.9k
Blisters to date: 2
Tortillas to date: 12

There was lots of motivation to walk today as our destination would see us stay at a really nice albergue with a pool! This was the only time I agreed to make a booking but even then we made it the same day.

I started walking around 5:15am (still in the dark) and Jorge caught up eventually (at the first coffee stop as usual). We walked together for a while playing games as we went along but then arrived to a very long stretch by the road with not one ounce of shade and over 30 degrees! Jorge turned into the roadrunner and I popped in my headphones and picked up my pace to get the last kms done as quickly as I could!

In Belorado, we enjoyed a couple of beers with Daniel and Ana, a lovely couple from Muxía (a coastal town of Spain), waiting for the albergue to open. We spent the rest of the day between the pool, the restaurant and playing street fighter on an arcade machine. Such a relaxing day in the middle of the heatwave!

Around the pool, I bumped into Meik, a German guy who I’d met a few days earlier at another pool, and we ended chatting for about an hour about Spanish. It was lovely to see how much he cared about learning the language to better connect with the locals throughout his camino.

It also turned out that Meik lives in a town near Hamburg and I was invited to visit when I’m there in late September.

In the evening, we went into town for a few more beers and nibbles. It’s incredible how at 8pm is when everyone starts to go out in Spain, even the old people and even in the smallest of villages!Weiterlesen