There are pilgrims strewn around in all the quietest spots near the sea, making sandwiches from things bought in the supermarket, drinking coffee, sleeping, eating fruit, and greeting fellow pilgrims with delight.
The weather in Finisterra today is already very hot - and it looks like predictions of 27 def C will be justified.
It is market day here, which is fun. Most of the stalls sell clothes, but there is also luscious fruit at really low cost. I have bought a peach, a nectarine, and an Orange for 75 cents.
I'm feeling rather lethargic today but want to pack some fruit and drink, my swimming costume and hotel towel, sun cream etc., and walk to the lighthouse.
I will take my hat and find out if I am allowed to burn it, although I am undecided about actually doing so..
The to a beach, for more swimming and sunbathing.
Everything will be done really SLOWLY today! I feel rather achy and stiff, why I must have been every day. It is only now that I have time to notice it.
So many things are all in the head!
South America is really big and I have never been there. I am leaving the safety of my teaching job to explore 5 spanish-speaking countries and to walk in the footsteps of Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands. I am hoping that neither the perilous altitudes of Ecuador, the ravenous midges in the Peruvian rainforest or the crazy Bolivian bus drivers will kill me... I will doubtless meet other people on the edge of sanity who feel the need to wander away from safety. I hope we can be friends.
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