Day: March 10, 2022

Wynette has been amazing this trip with her Spanish. She will be the first to tell you how bad it is and how much she misses, especially when people talk fast, which they usually do. That is all true and she would not qualify as fluent but she calls and makes reservations and we have a place to stay. She has lengthy conversations with people and she learns lots of things about their lives. And sometimes we get hugs at the end, how great is that?

This all is making me think I need to spend at least some time learning some Spanish. I’ll never match Wynette who has been working on it for years but I can do a little.

Reading the previous post I started wondering why we went early and thought about it. Since Wynette speaks pretty good Spanish she is able to talk to local people who only speak Spanish, which is most of them. We are usually the only people staying in the places we stay so we get the full attention of the people running the place. Wynette talked about her long conversations with Anabel in Villar de Mazarife. Anabel gave us a big hug at the end and Benedito gave us a manly handshake (you know how we guys are). This morning at breakfast she had a long friendly conversation with our hospitalier (?) ending with photos all around. People in restaurants have plenty of time to chat and ask us about our walk and tell us about their lives.

Sometimes we get cold and some places are closed but I think it is worth it.