This is the primary reason for no words in the blog post today. They got all used up chatting in the afternoon and over dinner.
French speaking Canadians, Americans, Arctic Norwegian, Swede, Brazilian, Slovenian and a lot of laughter.
Speaking of dinner….
Plus soup and bread to start, ice cream to finish and red wine if you wanted. Couldn’t finish it all.
The day in pictures:
Waiting for photos to upload, I might as well find some more words.
Very cold start, just 4 degrees. Cold wind all day.
Achilles understandably a bit unhappy….I was meant to do 9km yesterday and did 12….today was meant to be just under 12 and logged in at 16.5 with a climb that even though last time it caused the kids to say, “Was that it?“, today required some walking on tiptoes and then walking backwards and finally stopping for breaks.
Head was all over the place…contemplating the mass I went to last night with all its smells and bells and parading with banners and responsive singing… not enjoying having to listen to the conversation of folks walking behind me (so I pulled over and let them pass)…went into the church at Zariquiegui (isn’t that the coolest name?) and sat in a pew listening to the piped music and tears rolled down my cheeks (I don’t know why, I just let them fall)… simultaneously interested in the X shaped cross on one of the pictures in the church… noticed dew drops on grasses and birds singing and giant ants…realised I would not have walked a path like this if I had been home …captivated by wind whistling in the trees and pushing the fields of wheat so that they looked like waves rippling… crossed waterways without getting wet and no kids here to appreciate the feat (more than once, what´s more)… grand expansive vistas…
Oh look, uploads are done…
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