05 May 2010

Santa Catalina (EN)

Hola to you all!
Not every albergue has internet access and i tend not to walk around in the town because my feet are getting quite sore, i have 2 espacially nasty blisters so i don't walk useless miles :)
The meseta is over now, we are ascending again. Today was beautiful because we were finally away from the roads again! I had no idea that such a big part of the Camino is running next to or on roads with cars :( For this reason, i think if i walked to Santiago again, i'd take a different Camino, meybe on the North or through Portugal.
Our group changed a lot since Leon. The German guy stopped because he thought tendonitis is a bit too high price to pay for the Camino. Others slowed down so for a while i only walked with the Irish guy and the crazy French guy.
I really like both of them (well, all of them that i have walked with). The French guy, i like him despite the fact that he has a python at home and he feeds it with fluffy little kittens :-/
The Irish guy, Dan, has been a great help, he stopped when i needed to shake out little stones from my boots, he gave me his walking sticks today so i can get rid of some of the pressure on my feet and he just offered that tomorrow he'd carry some stuff of my bag because we will cover such a hard part. Amazing :)
We also met a lot of other people so today we are a group of 9 here in Santa Catalina :)

Tomorrow will be interesting because 2 days ago, we witnessed some flakes of snow in Leon!! And yesterday our host, a knight of the Maltese Order told us that 30 kms ahead (more or less where we are today) it was snowing! We were very lucky today, it was sunny and warm enough. We are on 1000 m and tomorrow we'll go up to 1600 and then down to - i think - 800 m, so i have to be careful with the knees.
Today it's been 3 weeks that i've been walking and covered ca 500 km. Feels like much longer, so much has happened.

4 comments:

  1. Idzsi - there is a lot more road walking on the Norte and the Portuguese routes than on the Camino Frances which has 505km on paths or tracks (63.3%) 202.6km on quiet roads (through villages - 25.4%) and 90.4km alongside main roads (11.3%).
    Heard that is was snowing in O Cebreiro which is 160km away from Leon. It could be cold in the Irago Mountains so stay warm!
    Buen camino,
    Sil

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  2. Okay, the French guy cannot visit us + the kitten in Ireland.

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  3. Yeah, i heard it today that the Camino del Norte is going a lot on roads too... It's quite off-putting and hard to walk on. I'll look into the options when i go home :)

    The French guy can't stand cats touching him so no... He can't visit, he knows that :)

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  4. Stay warm woman and let us know if the snow is black from the Icelandic ash :)

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