Stars are amazingly wonderful!!! I am loving getting up by 4:30 to start the hot meseta and arriving to the albergue by noon to fully enjoy the day. When we walk longer miles we end up taking siesta during the hottest hour of the day and then moving on.
When we started our day today we thought we were seeing the airport in the distance, and then we thought maybe a radio tower and really it was dozens of windmills spinning each one lit individually. Very neat site once the sun rose.
Towns in the distance make for bitter and sweet. They are great because you can see exactly where you are going, but at the same time, you can see where you are going and it might take 4 hours to arrive. This has happened a lot in smaller towns but is most challenging in the bigger more spread out cities. I realize I need to release some of my control of knowing when and where I am and are going and enjoy the journey to each city/town more. Let the camino guide me...
Cafe con Leche will now and always be part of my life. I have found this my new daily wake up medicine. Carson will not admit it, but he also loves it. We often hike a town or so and then stop at a cafe and get cafe con leche. Usually tortilla or pan dulce of some sort. The coffee in Spain is espresso... very delicious with milk and sugar in the addicting sort of way. We will be upgrading our small drip coffee pot when we return.
We met friends Jen, Kate, Amy, Ryan and Daniel back at the albergue 2 days ago and have connected well with them. We walked for the day with them and stayed together at the municipal albergue. There were 10 of us walking with 2 other friends from Virginia, Jennifer and Melissa and our buddy James.
We got to the albergue municipal and got hugs and i love yous from Luis, the hospitalero. He was making something that smelled delicious and let those of us hanging out try a taste of his paella. Yum!!!!! We already had decided to make a group meal rather than to pay for going out to dinner, so I thought it would be super cool to have Luis teach us how to make paella his way. We bought 2 packages of tomate frito, 2 pimientas verdes, 1 pimienta roja, aceite, 1 package arroz, 2 cebollas and oregano. We did the chopping part and then he came into the kitchen to help. He put a bit of oil in a pan with the rice. Then he browned it for a bit, at the same time he is sautéing the green peppers and onions. He adds the same amount of water as rice and brings it to a boil. He then adds the pepper onion mix and from there simmers for quite some time, adding water as needed. He used black pepper, cloves and a yellow powder that said it was salt and that it would work in place of saffron. It did smell and looked beautiful. We set the table for 15..Carson made a yummy salad, we cut bread and had wine for 2.5p€/person. Not bad!!!
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