Friday, October 3: Two Camino Friends

 Nearing 100km left in our walk to Santiago. There are two nurses from Barcelona who I keep running into. 

Aine, a nurse from  Barcelona

I first met them sitting on a bench in the woods a week or so ago.. I hadn't seen them before; it was their first day and they asked if I needed to sit down, and made space for me on the bench. They were so delightful I stopped to talk with them and have seen them almost every day since. Yesterday I mentioned that the chest strap in my backpack was broken, and that not having it operational was hurting my shoulders. Aina looked at it and fixed it in less than a minute, and Andrea asked me for a needle and thread, and sewed a couple rounds to keep it from coming apart again.

Andrea, one of the “ Barcelona Girls”

Tonight we ended the day in Abadín. I took some pictures in town, evidently a big cattle and animal sale area, because they had a lovely new sale barn in the center of town.

On the sale barn was posted a big homemade sign advertising natural, environmentally-sensitive lawn mowing services:

Offering sheep, goats or llamas to come trim your lawn the natural way.

There was also a big community building, a pavilion with glass sides. Posted all over the two buildings and also all around town were posters that I took to be an invitation to a wedding.

“This Saturday there won’t be a referee, but there will be a priest”

There are two players but the woman is wearing a wedding dress and a photo-shopped face. But if it actually did refer to a real couple marrying-why wouldn’t the groom’s face also appear? I asked Andrea and Aine, and they thought it was a prank.