The weather was extremely cold to start with (I wore buff and gloves until lunchtime the first 3 days), and then absolutely scorchio (35 Deg C) at the end.
We saw lots of beautiful almond trees and cork oaks, harvested for their corky bark.
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| Beautiful red young cork oak bark |
There were also many animals including pigs
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| Black pigs to make chorizo from |
It was very rustic and we met very few other people.
We kept bumping into a lovely German/French couple who had met a few years previously while walking the Camino Frances. Both of them were walking after the loss of their partners, and had met each other while on their own Camino. Karl-Heinz (the German) was a youthful 73 and still lived in his house in Germany. Maris-Claire was 67 (?) going in 21 and still lived 400 miles away from Karl in her own house in France. They were both learning each others' language and were the most lovely sweet couple. We spent a few nights sharing a room in albergues with them and got to know them quite well.
Whatever time we got up and left the alberge, we would be sure to bump into "The Germans" before too long.
There was also Stuart from Northern Ireland and Steve from Texas.
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