It’s been a relatively short, 27km day, not terribly interesting, almost no butterflies and not many flowers in the hedgerows. We did meet a couple of interesting people, in particular a young Italian lad whom we’d met at dinner last night. He was a data scientist who usually worked from home where home varied between Rio de Janeiro, the Dominican Republic and Ferrara.

He’d started walking in Ponferrada a few days ago but was clearly struggling. It turned out that his pack weighed in excess of 18kg. We explained that he could and probably should dump most of the bag’s contents into a cardboard box and send it via the Spanish postal system to Santiago where he’d be able to pick it up later. I did the same with my boots when walking the Primitivo in 2018. I hope he’ll take our advice; if not I can’t see him making it to Santiago.

Back to today’s little jaunt.

Buen camino