Yesterday I made 2 mistakes. My side excursion was to Ventora not Borgota and the word for pilgrims in Spanish is Peregrinos.
Today was a 22.5 km walk (according to one book) over rolling countryside. It is quite beautiful with sping flowers on the sides of the trail and amber fields of grain in the background. Last night I had dinner with a French couple who I have seen at a number of stops over the last four or five days. Theu were at the pilgrim church service last Sunday. We didn't have a lot of language in common, they could do a little bit of English, Spanish, German and lots of French; I could do a little bit of Spanish, some German and lots of English. Made for an interesting conversation. Anyway we agreed on one thing, they didn´t like the Gîtes (There I finally figured out how to do the little hat!) and Albergues any better than I do. I also walked for a while with two 35 to 40ish women from either Denmark or Sweden today for a while. They have been on the road for 6 weeks and had started in Le Puy. After a bit of talk, they put it in gear and just walked away from me at an amazing rate. Youth and lots of walking does that for you. Which reminds me of the Dutch woman of 60 years who had started in Holland and when I met her in France she had already walked 1700 km. Two German women from Wurzberg had hooked up with her but unfortunately the Dutch woman walked those two German women into the ground with three 30 km days. One thing one must know here is what you are capable of. One must walk their own Camino at their own pace or things can get rough. I am of the 20 to 24 km range kind of guy!
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