On Friday I walked the Coastal route instead of going over the mountain. I walked down to a stone beach. A pilgrim I was walking with told me she had been sick, and was taking a slow day. She lay down and took a nap in the sun.
There were stone cairns there that people had made. So I made my first-ever cairn. No telling when I will get a selection like that to work with again!
It was Kya’s birthday on Friday and it would’ve been great to make one with 19, but I had to stop at 7.
Then I went up and down more hills and saw a really pretty sand beach. This is looking down from a cliff. I promise I didn’t go near the edge.
The upper picture is the hill to the right. The stone beach is east of that. The bottom picture shows me taking the picture, the beach is far below me.
The Camino guide says that those who take the beach route do the same total ascending as those who climb over the mountain. I think my tracker said 55 staircases. And of course every time I went up I had to go all the way down soon after.
Last night I stayed in a beautiful hostel called Yalga. I’m only 10km from the town of Luarca where I will go to mass and then spend Saturday night with a pilgrim friend named Elizabeth. Because of only walking 6 or 7 miles today I will need to do 18 tomorrow. I have done 18 miles, specifically the muddy, logging day.
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