Rainy days: 1
Altus rain ponchos spotted: 1 (other than ours)
Moving sidewalks ascended in the rain: 5 (two were out of order) (they were a little slippery, maybe it’s better if you don’t take strollers on them)
Lots of hills: yes, of course
Distance walking above or beside freeways: 2 miles
Distance walked on asphalt: 7.5 miles (out of 7.5 miles)
Times my GPS track follower signaled that I was off the track: at least 5
Times we revisited the bar we liked in 2018: 2
It rained off and on the whole walk. But, being from NM, we have a strong affection for rain so it was fine.
Leaving Portugalete we crossed a huge freeway intersection. We were on pathways above it. It seemed to go on forever.
On the Camino forum people complain a lot about how much road walking there is on the Norte. This is true but we have another viewpoint. When you are walking on asphalt you don’t have to watch your feet every second to avoid falling on the uneven rocks so it is much more relaxing. Actually only a few blocks was actual road, the rest was a bike and walking trail so you didn’t have to worry about cars.
We use an app called Wikiloc which will follow a track you upload. When you get off track by more than 10-20 yards it emits a loud squawk. Handy. But the Camino trail has changed in many small ways since our GPS track was recorded. So we just followed the yellow arrows and had no problem.
We are in that bar right now, drinking decafs and blogging.
Decaf? Shame! Though to be honest, it makes sense given the time of day. I still might have had real thing.
These days I can’t have too much caffeine after lunch time or it will affect my sleep. But, we’d already had two regular coffees during the morning so we’d had plenty of caffeine by then.
I love your diary idea!
We were chatting about it and we thought about the Bridget Jones Diary format and how clever it was. We got the book and looked at how she did it and decided to copy it. We think through the day and add items and then add paragraphs about things that we want to say more about.