Casanova

Well that's name I would not have expected to appear in this blog, Casanova.

We spent today "stalking" a dad and his young son walking the Camino. They were our companions overnight at Eirexe and left before us in the morning. We came across them several times along the way, lastly in Casanova, where we are spending the night, they were going on to Melide.

During our journeying today we came across some amazingly big ants in a garden... munched a fab bacon and cheese bocadillo... got the requisite number of stamps in our credentials and saw lots of these interesting farm outbuildings too.

It has been tough going for Nikki who has an awkward pair of blisters and we had some first aid to do along the way. Eventually we found a cafe open and at that point an Albergue was what we needed. When we asked one of the ladies serving in the cafe where the nearest one was, she laughed and said "metros".  As we left she came out with us, pointed 20 m up the road and said "Albergue" . I have say I was very relieved at the moment as I am so conscious of how hard this is for "amazing Nikki" I know she could not have made around 8 km to Melide. The cafe incidentally did us a fab meal at 4.30 pm just before they closed. Galician Soup, Lentil soup, Roast chicken with rice, wine, bread, we took the "postre" pudding, away with us for tomorrow- banana! All for 10€ just loving "menu del dia" .

Prayers please for Nikki and her feet and cough...


Here are those massive ants... The one on the left, out of shot,  is Adam and on the right is Prince Charming!





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