Walking Through the Fields to Los Arcos

One of our first stops on our drizzly, 14km walk this morning was a little town Villamayor de Monjardin. There was a church with a big steeple bell. It reminded me that we learned from other pilgrims that the bells we are hearing from the churches along the Camino are not real bells. They are recorded bell chimes that are sent out over a loud speaker....kind of disappointing! I didn't want to believe that is was true, but this morning when the bells rang & I watched, there was no movement at all by the bells. Our walk was pretty uneventful, lots of brown pastures. We did see hills that had been burned by the forest fires this summer.

The highlight of the day was running into Patsy & Kevin. They were the first friends we made on this adventure back when we all were in Paris waiting to board the TGV. It has been 3 days since we have crossed paths with them and we rjust happened to run into each other as they were ending their day in Los Arcos. They are also staying at the same hotel we are tonight.Læs mere