Day: October 15, 2014

Wynette. We’ve had some questions in email and blog comments that I’ll try to answer here in the blog. Most are not frequently asked but FAQ seemed like a good title. I was going to put them in one post, but decided to break them into separate posts. So they’ll be coming soon (if our web server will cooperate). Let us know if we’ve missed one of your questions.

Right in the middle of town.

A little garden in Villavante.

They have pretty stones around here.

Charlie. Going out of Villavante near our casa rural.

Charlie. We’re at a nice casa rural today. The fire was welcome after a cold day. I’m sitting by it now blogging.

Charlie. Wynette makes the hotel reservations. She started giving the name Charles Crowley but it is not familiar to Spanish ears and always got garbled so she changed to using Dorotea Ricardo and they always get it right.

By the way, Wynette is doing great with her Spanish. She is often gabbing away with the hotel or albergue people. Once they see she knows some Spanish they go on and on. Most people walking the Camino do not know Spanish. I think they are glad to have someone who can understand them.

Today is day 28, 25 left to go. We have walked 26 of those days. We have walked 195 miles averaging 7.5 miles per day. We have stayed in 27 different towns, we stayed two days in Carrión de los Condes.

We have skipped 80 miles by bus, train and taxi. We have skipped most of the same parts we skipped last time. It turns out we had good reasons to skip the segments we did, through suburbs and stretches where it’s a long way between places to stop.

In the next week we will walk to Ponferrada. Then the plan is to take a bus to Santiago and start walking to Finisterre and Muxia. We’re a little ahead of schedule so we may have time to see the north coast of Galicia and walk some of the English Camino from A Coruna.