Sunday was long walk day. Since Saturday was so short, Sunday was going to be 30 or 31 kilometers. Fortunately it was gentle ups and downs, no huge hills.
I was walking with Elizabeth, a pilgrim from Australia and England, who knows Spanish really well and can also read the mass listings much better than I can. We stayed together and finished in really good time. We ended up after 18 or 19 miles in a town called La Caridad, “ Charity.”
We saw lots if animals again today, among them my very first geese. They were guard-dog geese. You can’t tell in the picture but they were hissing loudly at us.
Elizabeth told me that it was the feast day of the archangels, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. So I had to take a picture if this mutant Ninja Turtle that someone put up as a yard decoration to encourage passing pilgrims. I have no idea which one of the three this turtle represents.
When we finally arrived in Caridad, we found out they were celebrating their town street fair. There were s lot of rides for kids, my favorite was the bull ride. The guy who ran that one had a microphone and would yell, “ everyone put your hands up!” And the kids would, and then he’d pull a lever and all the little bulls would glip sideways and toss off their riders. The kids loved it. The floor was well- padded, and they kept jumping back on. They loved it.
There was also a Duck Pond, like the one I worked at in Hershey Park.
