Day 6

A dry day today. Thank goodness! Felt more like a walking holiday than a Pilgrimage. I walked to day with Ludger (Camino dad) and Maurizio from Sardina (not part of the Mafia he is quick to tell us, suspicious). We also got a small amount of free wine. Next door to a church there were two taps, one producing water and the other wine. I abstained as 9am is too early even for me.

We walked till Lunch. Ludger is still very fearful of my reaching a state of hangriness and I was definitely on my way there by the time we stopped at the Aubergue in Los Arcos. Living in London I always find it hard to comprehend that there are times where no shops are open and this was the case being a Sunday afternoon. Ludger is very resourceful and managed to get some free salad a from a farmer who going to feed it his animals but was still very edible. Then for a small fee he negotiated some supplies from a local cafe. In the evening after dinner we sat around the table, as always the company was multicultural. I got a little emotional experiencing the warmth of all these different nationalities being together with no common language but still somehow getting to know each other.