We had met up to start walking together at 9 but when we got down, half of the group had already left because they thought we had left.
Mitch and Ben were still waiting however, and Andres and Sabine who had slept outside also joined us.We started walking at 9:30, later than ever before and followed the green arrows through some woods and fields for about 2 hours.
Despite a certain tiredness, we kept ourselves entertained with a very funny story-making game and settled for breakfast at 11:30 on a grassy field under some trees, where we sat mostly in silence with some of us sleeping and relaxing in the grass. It was not hot and sunny anymore but rather cloudy and very bright with a fairly high humidity. Still absolute sweating- and T-shirt weather but with a certain threat of rain or thunderstorm in the next days.
There were a few hills after breakfast but we walked very fast and finally stepped out of the forest and found our way reunited with the Camino del Norte after those two last days that didn’t officially belong to any of the Caminos. The very moment we were on the Camino again, the asphalt began and we had to walk for many kilometers along a relatively busy and narrow national road.
My feet hurt really bad when we finally arrived at a village with a bar around 2. We sat there and had lunch before setting off to walk the last 5 k of the day. The kilometers on the Camino signs are getting ridiculously small now. We are only 60 km away from Santiago and have only 2.5 walking days left (so sad…).
After breakfast, we had split up with Sabine and Andres and it had been only the four of us. Lukas and Andres informed us that they would walk a little further than our 26 km and we didn’t see them again in the evening. Tom and Sabine however were waiting at the albergue already when we arrived. Johanna had started to feel really bad on the last km before the albergue but bravely walked on and fell into bed from where she finally resurrected at dinner time.
It was pretty late and we were all too tired and confused to think of any common dinner plans tonight, so everyone provided for themselves but we sat together in the beautiful dining-washing-laundry-kitchen-bike-room to eat. There was no beer nor wine today and we were all in bed before 10.
