Day 16: The Camino or a Honeymoon? | Murray Morrison

Back to back nights with the Snuggle Squad. We wish these albergue love birds would get a private accommodation.

Today, we timed our walk just about perfectly. We woke up at 5 and paused our walk to look for a good breakfast in a small town that we were walking through. The café we entered seemed to have nobody inside, and at this point, we are pretty hungry and kind of desperate because it did not look like anything was open, and the next town wasn’t for another 17 km. We headed to what looked like a small market. It was locked of course, but a very small man with a dog walked up to us, and I think said that he was the owner, and he was just opening up. We ordered 2 ham sandwiches but instead got a gigantic loaf of bread with ham on the side. Decided to make that our mid-day snack and headed back to the café. Now, it was finally open. And as we stepped in the café, it started raining pretty heavily. We ate a great breakfast and waited for it to calm down and headed out again.

The rest of the walk was cool with nice cloud coverage. We ran into our German friend Albert, the one who spoke zero English, again, and he recognized us and said something in German that Alex and I had no chance of understanding. We just smiled and waved. Our albergue tonight is very good, and once we got settled, we shared a good lunch with a German stud named Mark. Mark is one of those guys that you kind of feel has life figured out compared to Alex and me who are just trying to figure it out.

On to Leon…

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