On Saturday, we did another bit of the Camino de Santiago, from Calahorra to Alcanadre. Again we were going to do two days and again we just did one because the weather report said it would rain. (Photo: in the playground in Alcanadre)This time we started a little later because it was only 22 km. It was supposed to take about four and a half hours, so when we arrived at 3 pm, after three and a half hours (and including a half hour break for lunch), I actually thought we were in a different village.
We entered a bar to ask directions to the train station, which probably wasn't really necessary because it's a village with a population of 350 people and maybe seven or eight streets. There were five old men sitting round a table chatting or reading the newspaper, and when I entered the bar, there was a dead silence and all the people turned around and looked at me, like they'd never seen an Asian person in their life.
When we started there wasn't a cloud in the sky and the sun was scorching. Both of us ended up getting pretty sunburnt, even with sunscreen but now people can't make fun of me for being so pasty. And for once the weather report was correct. It started pouring down rain at about 6 pm with huge chunks of hail.
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dear cath,we have the same spring chair (toy) like the one you sat in the photo, which located in the park in front of our house, Oliver like it very much, every time he goes to the park he ran to sit on it.bye, marcos.
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