Cape Wrath Trail

Cape Wrath Trail
Carrying 25 kg and feeling good

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Goodbye Fisterra

I had supper with Ted from Texas and his "friend" (i cannot get her name!) from Pensford in Somerset. This is one of those weird coincidences... Pensford is a tiny, tiny village near Bristol that most British people will not have heard of, so to meet someone from there in Spain almost beggars belief. Anyway she is younger than me so she didn't get "The dap" (a punishment for naughty children that I experienced a few times), but she rang the bells at Publow Church, and remembers the dinner ladies at Pensford school! Weird..
Ted met the woman from Pensford on the Camino and they are an item now! Ted is writing a book about cooking and friendship, based on his experiences on the Camino Frances. We had lots of discussion about a title for his book, and he seems to like "A Journey about food and friendship". A nice man. Also in the process of changing his life plan after walking, talking, and meeting people.
Among other things we talked about Tracy Chapman's album "Crossroads" - I must get this one!
Afterwards i was on my own again and I found a lovely bar full of flotsam and jetsam, playing British music from the,1970s. I was happy and in my element. I strongly recommend this bar, which is on the same road as the municipal albergue, but a bit further up on the left. I gave them my badge "Good Planets Are Hard To Find". Look for the shells hanging from the ceiling and the Ludo game stuck to the ceiling too and you have it!
And so to bed. I will be sorry to leave Galicia. The seagulls haven't been quiet since I arrived here. But I feel I know Fisterra pretty well. The weather has mostly been great in Galicia.  
 

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