Fair-Weather Pilgrims

We are taking a week off from the Camino! A few days ago the forecast was for day after day of unrelenting cold, cloudy, rainy weather. In a moment of weakness, we started looking at the forecast for Southern Spain (Málaga). It was about 10 degrees warmer there but still rainy. And a 9 hour train ride. We’ve always wanted to see A Coruña in northwest Spain on the Atlantic coast. Its highs were 5 degrees warmer than where we were on the Camino and its lows were 15 degrees warmer. And it was a 2.5 hour bus ride away. Hmmmm. We decided to head for A Coruña, hoping that in a week or so, weather on the Camino won’t be quite so uncomfortable. We reserved an Airbnb for a week in the historic district of A Coruña and caught the bus here yesterday morning (Monday). We spent yesterday getting settled into our charming B&B, going grocery shopping, and exploring the city a bit. Today we had a breakfast that couldn’t be beat in our kitchen, then went shopping for some warm fuzzies to wear around in our rather chilly, but still charming, Airbnb. And then had some yummy tapas for lunch.

Right now, the weather forecast is looking quite a bit better on the Camino than it was looking a few days ago. Weather here in this part of Spain changes so quickly and we’ve noticed that forecasts even for the same day end up being incorrect.

We are thinking we’ll probably return to where we left off (Villafranca del Bierzo) and start walking from there again in a week or so. But, who knows. We’ve even considered walking a different camino: the Camino Inglés which starts in A Coruña and ends in Santiago. Or, we might go back and walk some of the Ruta Cantábrica which we walked in 2019. Or maybe we’ll end up in Málaga!!