We had a slower morning in Melide. Our clothes didn’t dry and we had lots of leftovers to work through. There was a mix up with moms bag pick up and that was our first adventure.
We had a code on the door and the company guy came to pick up the bag and couldn’t get it. So he left.
We loaded mom and her bag into a cab and saw them off to Arzua. She wound up hiking back towards us and then turning around again.
The rest of us headed onto the Camino to see what we could see.
We saw Spanish coffee. Spanish coffee is half espresso and have super frothy warm milk. It’s so creamy and thick.
I went to this church to see a strange crucifix.
Unfortunately it was closed. It was on this backpack free easy downhill walk that I almost had my first Camino fall.
Slipping on gravel is my fancy new trick.
On the way out of town we went to this small chapel. It was a templar church and had been in use since Visigothic times.
The picture at the top of this blog is an 8th century Visigothic altar. I’m so excited by that.
We got bagpipes out of town!
We saw lots of nature.
It was very hot and weirdly that was just how it felt. My weather app said it was in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
It felt like the mid 90s. I’m sure much of that has to do with the fact that we were walking in the sun up and down big hill’s carrying backpacks.
We stoped a fair bit for snacks and cooling down.
I got this cool toast that came with olive oil and salt. The olive oil was in a little hard sell container about the size of a ketchup packet. You snapped of a triangle at the top to reveal a tiny aperture for pouring. They have these for vinegar as well.
Someone shares our love of Douglas Adams.
We stopped to try out Spanish ice cream bars. I liked this one. It tasted like butterscotch.
We found people soaking their feet and trying to cool off.
We made it into town. We found mom. She was sitting by an Alburge that my map insisted was not ours.
I then led mom and Kiernan on a hot exhausting loop around Arzua until it led me back to exactly where we’d started.
Kiernan had a heat headache.
I started getting one.
By the time we’d had showers and settled down I had a full blown headache.
Mom started laundry and made a nice lasagna dinner and I went to bed. I got up again tried to eat and had a great big nope.
I went back to bed and thought I was hallucinating when the accordion started up.
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