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- Oct 10, 2023, 5:55pm
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 395 m
- SpainGaliciaArzúaBurres42°55’42” N 8°12’52” W
Day 42 - Melide to Taberna Velha -8km
October 10, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Ok my devoted readers. Yesterday I left you hanging as to what decision I should make, to go out and eat dinner or stay in and not eat dinner. Well, it turns out there was a third option which I chose which was a big mistake. I had decided to go have dinner, but when I was outside my hotel, Charlene (from US/Canada/the world) was sitting having a beer so I joined her. Visiting with Charlene was not the mistake, it was actually quite nice, the mistake was only having a beer.
When I got back to my room I was feeling sick. I got the chills and started sweating. I had a fever all night and it finally broke at 3am but a headache and sore throat were lingering. Given I didn’t have dinner, I ate all the snacks I had left in my bag and would nibble on them all night long. At 7am, I decided to go down and have breakfast. It was important to get some good food in me. It was an awesome buffet breakfast with eggs, bacon, toast and jam. They had all sorts of things, but I couldn’t eat them, I was quickly full.
Check out from the hotel was noon so I decided to try and go back to bed for a bit and see if the food helped. I woke up at 10am but still with a headache and feeling weak. So now I was 2 hours behind already on my day and had to make a decision. I thought I would try to walk but knew at some point I would need to take a taxi. Maybe I should just take it from the hotel. I thought, no, just try now and see how you feel, maybe you get better.
After I left the hotel, I stopped at the pharmacy in town and asked “hables ingles?” And the woman just flat out said “no”. I can see the look on her face that she was annoyed and really didn’t want to help, so I just left. I know I could have pulled up google translate to help me, but when you are sick, you just don’t think rationally.
So, I started walking and boy was I slow. I always track my walking with my Apple Watch and my pace was around 3kms an hour and it was a lot of effort to do that pace. About 2.5km in, there was a rural hotel. I decided to go in and ask her to call me a taxi. I took the taxi to Aruza which was about 5.5km before my final destination. I had the driver drop me at the pharmacy. This time I went in prepared with google translate with my symptoms and she gave me some cold medication (at least that is what I hope it is). I am supposed to take it every 8 hours.
So today I walked a total of 8kms of the 20km I was supposed to. If it was at any other time, I would have just taken the day off, but I have now booked everything including the beds, tour of cathedral, tattoo, plane to Germany so I really need to stick to the schedule now.
I am in a beautiful little albergue in a small village owned by a German woman - Heidi. She did all of our laundry together and I had a nice afternoon nap. We will all have dinner together. I hope I can eat it. My headache is less but I still feel weak. I have to try and keep drinking water.
I have decided to ship my bag tomorrow. I would really like to walk the whole 23kms and that may help. Then only 10kms the next day into Santiago.Read more
Traveler Julie get well soon.🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Traveler Aspirin complex is good.
Traveler Tough situation Julie - which you’ve been in before. Just do your best and let the chips fall where they may. Adjustments may still be possible. We are behind you all the way!