What a better day with the sun shining on us from the early morning. We leave early hoping for a good coffee break as we did not have time to buy food yesterday with our late arrival. It is not long before we get to a wonderufl little bar and are happy with the first Cafe con leche. The walk is wonderful, through little villages and then what a path along the coast, It is breathtaking and we are stopping every 10 feet to take pictures and to enjoy the feeling of the sun and the sea.. We are only walking a short distance today so we take our time with more breaks and talk with th epeople we meet as we come up to them.
One stop is at an abandoned monestary which is now occupied by 2 horses. Lots of people seem to come here to visit the place and it should really be restored as it is an ancient and special place. We continue walking and eventually come to the little village that we had anticipated finding a bed. The alberque in Pria is closed and there is nothing there except for a church!
Luckily for us and perhaps this is how it goes, there is a home with a women who adversites beds for peregrinos for E10, We stop in there with two other people we have met and can you believe it, she provides us 5 wtih an apartment, 2 bedrooms, a sitting room and kitchen as well as bathroom AND the use of the washing machine. It is like heaven for us. She then offers to take us back to town for food as we did not bring any with us for dinner.
So we have a wonderful evening,. clean clothes, good pasta dinner and a wonderfu sleep in a very quiet village with a kind lady taking care of us. Turns out that there are about12 people that end up staying in the accomodation that she has there and it is very nice, clean and new and wonderful. a blessing along this way.
I am walking with an ache in my knee today and wondering if it just the effect of all of the long days of the past weekend and the pavement. I am taking my time and getting good massage from Alvina who is a master at this. I feel like I am just walking walking walking now and while I enjoy the environment and the wonderful friendships, I am wondering about purpose and intention for myself.
This morning I realize that this is how life goes, you just carry on and deal with things as they occur. You can take the time to relish the moments or you can just pulg away waiting to arrive. I am learning from myself as I walk that there is much to alter in the way that I approach each situation and each moment ie as opportunity or as just one more thing to deal wtih.
We have increased our group to include Sonja and Yette now and they bring so much fun to us. Yette, especially is such a wonderful person. She is jolly and happy and we laugh a lot with her.
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