(Distance: 27kms Time: 7 hours)
The Day: It was a fairly easy day of walking without many ups or downs as far as the terrain. However, the Camino is changing at a rapid pace. It has been a very different experience since passing Sarria where a lot of people start for the last 100 kms. First and most obvious, it is more crowded with all the newcomers and the attitude & approach has change with people getting dropped off in a taxi and a lot more people not carrying their backpacks (they get them transported to the next stop). Looking closer at the people now around us, you see more "designer" clothing and women actually wearing makeup. Bright colored sneakers, cute little backpacks that are designed to look nice but not very useful ... things like that. For the first 700kms it was a Camino family and now it is more like a Camino city. For those people that just do the minimum last 100 kms their experience will be very different than ours ... it doesn't make it worse or better, just very very different. One good thing is the fact that when a group gets annoying we can easily out distance them especially on the hills. It is good for the ego when you pass by so many other walkers too :)
The Day: It was a fairly easy day of walking without many ups or downs as far as the terrain. However, the Camino is changing at a rapid pace. It has been a very different experience since passing Sarria where a lot of people start for the last 100 kms. First and most obvious, it is more crowded with all the newcomers and the attitude & approach has change with people getting dropped off in a taxi and a lot more people not carrying their backpacks (they get them transported to the next stop). Looking closer at the people now around us, you see more "designer" clothing and women actually wearing makeup. Bright colored sneakers, cute little backpacks that are designed to look nice but not very useful ... things like that. For the first 700kms it was a Camino family and now it is more like a Camino city. For those people that just do the minimum last 100 kms their experience will be very different than ours ... it doesn't make it worse or better, just very very different. One good thing is the fact that when a group gets annoying we can easily out distance them especially on the hills. It is good for the ego when you pass by so many other walkers too :)
The People: Christian is still kind of with us ... he didn't walk with us today but we saw him and we are supposed to be meeting up at the albergue in Melide but so far we have not seen him. We met up once again with Cherry on the trail and also passed by Josie.
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| the path today pretty much followed the roads |
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| some of our companions today :) |
