The rain in Spain

An interesting night with strange sounds threatening to keep me awake. Luckily I did sleep and woke up before the alarm. Our Camino walk starts today so first priority was to have our bag downstairs before 8am so that the luggage people could collect it and drop it at our next accommodation. 

Next it was our included breakfast of pastry and baguette with a coffee x 2 for me. 

We finished our brekkie, hung around our room and at approximately 9am headed out into a light rain on the 1st leg of our walk to Valcarlos. 

You know when you're driving through France and you turn off onto a small one car wide road? This was today's walk. 

The rain was constant, stopping some time to refill and start again. We walked and photographed on repeat. 

The big mystery of the day was how, on a seemingly one direction walk, two women overtook us 3 times. Where did they keep disappearing to?

Getting onto the right trail was a bit tricky to start with, but there were enough small yellow arrows pointing us in what we assumed was the right direction.

There were some forks in the road that we decided to take.

I may or may not have broken France's public urination laws on the way (or Spain's as I assume at some point we crossed the border).

In the middle of nowhere we came across a factory outlet type of place. The toilet there came in handy and onwards we climbed.

We came to a point where 2 options were available. We took the option by the river, feeling that the extra 100m was manageable. That extra 100m was straight uphill.

Lots of cows and sheep and pigs to see and smell on the way and some great scenery.

It took just over 4 hours. There is not a lot happening in the village. We grabbed a baguette and cheese and ham from a shop which was really nice, and the Coke was excellent.

After 13km walking, you always want your room to be on the second floor just for those few extra steps. 

Sitting around outside in the cold had left us freezing. I got the feeling back in my hands with hot water and we both slept on and off for a couple of hours with the extra blankets.

The town church bell goes off every half hour. Yay. Can't wait to be woken at midnight.

Dinner was easiest to have downstairs and to my surprise, the potato salad that came with my breaded chicken was actually chips. No complaints here. We fought a good battle with the tv and tried casting from our phones but the internet couldn't handle it.

The shower was hot and welcoming. It's a pity the bathroom smelt like a gym shirt that you find in your bag 3 weeks later. That's all until tomorrow.