Yesterday in the evening I talked with a Spanish pilgrim couple with two daughters ( 15 and 18 years old ). I had a room for my own and my alarm was set to 4 o’clock.
I made a holder for my smartphone in the callipers ( Bauchtasche ) so that I have a light in the nights without a moon.
I thought… one of the great things of the Camino is the trust in people you do not know. You have a albergue with rooms full of pilgrims…. you have not seen many of them before…. and everybody charges the own smartphone and can go out of the room.
The guides differ with their information about e. g. the length of the daily route. Today I walked about 27 km with many ups and downs.
I walked in the hills and saw the big river…. but for each small river I had to go down….
… and up again…
The first blackberries (Brombeeren) are ripe.
Tomorrow the distance will almost be 10 km longer. And it is public holiday, so no normal shopping.
Lieber Martin, wie schön, deinen Tagesberichten zu folgen! Dein Kommentar zu dem Zutrauen, das die Pilger verbindet hat mich wieder an Taizé erinnert, wo alle so frei und offen miteinander umgehen, dass Neulinge oft ganz platt sind. Man erzählt sich in dieser Atmosphäre auch die Gedanken, die man sonst kaum ausspricht. Ähnliches kenne ich auch von den GfK-Gruppen. Das sind ganz erstaunliche Dinge: ein unglaubliches Vertrauen in die Menschen kommt da wieder zum Vorschein.