Day 2
The 2nd days walk is from Rocensvialles to Zubiri about 22 kilometers through amazing mountains, even more amazing woods and open fields. The general direction is down in altitude, but more often that I wanted the path climbed a hill instead of going around it. Still having the scars of the way up of the day before I took it personally every time there was I had to climbe. I don´t get what was going through the head of mideval pilgrims that decided this was the best path to walk to Santiago ...
I woke up at 6:30 and by 7 we were walking (again me, N and Andree) We stopped in the next town in bar to eat a sandwich, banana and drink coffee. Because it was very cold (8 degrees celsius) I had my plastic wind breaker on. After about an hour Andree convinced me to take my wind breaker off and what was underneath was a soaked t-shirt, so I had to change (sweating is suppose to be good for one's health, but I sweath enough for 20 people). A couple of hours later as we were walking through another town I saw a grocery store and deiceded to buy the missing stuff (towel, shampoo) and I added a Dannone (and here was the last I ate this day). We kept walking and it looked like the road will never and. My feet's soals were swolen to the point where I could barely walk anymore. At a certain point we saw our final destination. The sad thing was that the refugio was another kilometer into town. Dispair almost had me. When we got there I took my shoes and and couldn't walk for the next 3 hours. I felt as if walking with Andree was holding me back instead of enjoying the walk in my own pace. So for day 3 I decided that I will walk my own pace and open a gap if she can't stand the pace. I went to sleep at 6PM only to be woken up at 9:30PM because some pilgrims decided to be not so quiet in orginizing. I couldn't sleep untill midnight. I don't know when I fell asleep but until that time the guy in the next bunk was snoring and making the same sounds my dad made on his death bed in the last few hours of his life. Those hours kept flashing in front of me every time I heard him snore. Because outside it was 5 degrees, sleeping outside wasn't an option (even though my sleeping bag is more than capable) but having a cold and sore ears and throat convinced me otherwise.
I woke up at 6:30 and by 7 we were walking (again me, N and Andree) We stopped in the next town in bar to eat a sandwich, banana and drink coffee. Because it was very cold (8 degrees celsius) I had my plastic wind breaker on. After about an hour Andree convinced me to take my wind breaker off and what was underneath was a soaked t-shirt, so I had to change (sweating is suppose to be good for one's health, but I sweath enough for 20 people). A couple of hours later as we were walking through another town I saw a grocery store and deiceded to buy the missing stuff (towel, shampoo) and I added a Dannone (and here was the last I ate this day). We kept walking and it looked like the road will never and. My feet's soals were swolen to the point where I could barely walk anymore. At a certain point we saw our final destination. The sad thing was that the refugio was another kilometer into town. Dispair almost had me. When we got there I took my shoes and and couldn't walk for the next 3 hours. I felt as if walking with Andree was holding me back instead of enjoying the walk in my own pace. So for day 3 I decided that I will walk my own pace and open a gap if she can't stand the pace. I went to sleep at 6PM only to be woken up at 9:30PM because some pilgrims decided to be not so quiet in orginizing. I couldn't sleep untill midnight. I don't know when I fell asleep but until that time the guy in the next bunk was snoring and making the same sounds my dad made on his death bed in the last few hours of his life. Those hours kept flashing in front of me every time I heard him snore. Because outside it was 5 degrees, sleeping outside wasn't an option (even though my sleeping bag is more than capable) but having a cold and sore ears and throat convinced me otherwise.
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