I can’t say enough good about this little place Fuente.Saletas in Boente! Olga and Fernando are the best hosts. Olga doesn’t speak a lick of English and she seems proud of it. We spent about 15 minutes trying to determine that she was asking if we wanted 3 lower bunks in the same room. We tried Google voice and even that didn’t work. Once we finally understood each other. I tried to elaborate on it only to be told “alto, no mas.” Here for 12€ we were treated like queens. We were given towels, sheets — she even did our laundry for us for free. Dinner was an additional 10€ for the pilgrims’ meal which always includes 2 courses, desert and vino. This was served by Fernando (Olga’s husband) who raves about the “house” vino tinto. It was either really homemade or out of a huge box as he kept going into the storeroom to fill pitcher after pitcher of the red stuff. He also started with us a free shot of their house digestive which was made from mint.
We’ll have breakfast here before we head out. And we did! Served by none other than our Host Fernando!
I wanted a picture of Olga too but apparently her husband has morning duty as she was still sleeping.
So we did about 18kms today in and out of the rain. Everything here is so green!
The pictures just can’t describe the scenery. You have to see this to believe it.
Kelly asked me to find out what the price of gas is here. That is a little bit difficult because
1. I have only seen about 5 gas stations in the 6 weeks I have been here (there also don’t seem to be a lot of autos on the highways).
2. The prices are in Euros and;
3. The unit of measure is liter instead of gallon.
Finally I’m not sure which of these is diesel
Not so many pilgrims today. Here’s a great shot of a nice path.
Along the way you see many shrines to people from many countries. Here is one to someone in Mexico.
Tomorrow is my second to last day on the Camino. Beginning to be sad😢
Just one more thought. How interesting is it that Spanish has the same letters as us for the word “tuna?” They are just re-arranged: “atun.” Hummmmmm? What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Nitey nite😌
simply beautiful....
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