Last night rained a lot so our laundry never got dried. Yuk.
Then we lost power for hours until someone questioned this and the albergue person in charge said to just flip the circuit breaker. Shouldn’t that be their job?
We were hanging out in the common room with Andrew and Jessie (Australia) and Larry and Monique (Canada) telling old Camino stories. Then Monique goes and gets her ukulele she has in her pack and starts singing songs for us. Slowly more people start coming in and we are having a sing a long. She even played “Country Roads” which was a big hit. Felt fortunate to be apart of it all.
Today’s walk was 23.5K to Casa Catolic in Branca. It rained off and on today but we felt fortunate that we didn’t get caught in a massive deluge that was only a short distance away.
We kept seeing Ilsa (Belgium) today off and on at various cafe stops. She is such a friendly person. It feels good to meet people like this that just enjoy the moment. We also walked quite a bit with Kako (Japan). She is 75 years old and we barely keep up with her. We are pathetic.
There was no point trying to get to the albergue and try to get laundry done again since it was still raining so we found a self service laundromat off of the Camino but close to our albergue. There were a few Portuguese in there when I stripped down to my underwear to get my dirtiest clothes cleaned. I had a clean shirt and pants that I was able to change into right away. Beth did give me stink eye when I dropped my shorts.
There is only a few of us here tonight so it should be a quiet night instead of the hootenanny we had last night. Our bodies are breaking down. Two more long walks until our rest day in Porto.
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience, can never go back to its old dimensions”…..Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr