Saturday 1 October 2011

Sat 1 Oct - White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbbits (Christa knows!). A good night last night except that England lost against Germany (Juliet and Marcos) at bar football and worse of all 50 % of the German tems was female! I blame my attack as he was spiked with white wine! Have also found that the ear plugs work very well - as when Ian is snoring I just stick them up his nose! COP start and scenery much improved again with a gentle climp to the highest point of the whole camino at 1505m. Also there seems to be less people on the camino at the moment, but this may just be because we are ahead or behind a large group. We have seem lots of wind farms on our trip and got close to many of them and I can confirm that up close there is some noise - but just a light whoom whoom as the blades rotate, but the real problem with them is the very bright flashing lights that are mounted on every windmill which can illuminate the sky for a large area. Not only have I seen more sunrises in a single stretch during the camino but also I have seen far more magnificent night skys and it is really great to watch the 'gloaming`' appear just as dawn approaches and you realise that you can see just a little bit more. I have already referred to my dislike of hikers that use twin poles as they pollute the camino with their click, click, clicks so I have designed a new tee shirt. You know the one that shows the evolution of man from crawling, through walking on all fours to standing upright? Well I intend to add a few other stages showing hiker with 2 stickes, then back to crawling and finally back to the slime - evolution to devolution/degradation???? We have spent millions of years evolving to walk of two legs and some people seem to think going back to 4 limbs is better!!! Walked to Molinaseca today, a total of 33kms. Went further than intended because it was such a good walk and we felt fit. Now in a good AdP and we caught up with Claire and Sara (who is looking a little sunburnt). So now washing done, blog typed, phots to up load then it will be time for supper. Buon Camino!

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