Saturday 15 October 2016

Saturday in San Vicente de la Barquera ...

After breakfast, seeing the pilgrims off towards Asturias ... Luisa arrives to clean ... Achille and I continue our conversation on the route ... until the next village ... up the hill to the little locked church, to find Marita. .. Julian joins, then the Korean mother and daughter last seen in Castro ... this part-time peregrino turns round ... big toe on right foot rather tender after yesterday's fall ... salt water bath prescribed ... after a coffee in town, to the beach and a lovely long plodge ... the five German women plus Victor guiding pass, with him hobbling ... sore Achilles tendon, bag sent on to next albergue ... though not this one, so far ... seventeen pilgrims ... Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic represented .... Poles going up to Santa Toribio ... where the Christians stashed the holy relics when the Moors came calling ...

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