A BETTER DAY

7 September 2023, Camino 3, Day 8

Santo Domingo to Belorado

I have discovered a new Spanish delight…Grape Bread. It’s very much like a baguette type bread with grapes in it. Not like a zucchini or banana bread, although I found several recipes online for that kind of bread with grapes. I must make some when I come home.

Much of today’s route follows along the highway it’s a flatter and straighter route, but the quiet sounds of the camino are punctuated by the rushing cars and trucks that go past us.

Starting in Pamplona, we were very much in the Pyrenees, but now, after a week, we are very much into the foothills of the Pyrenees. The mountains, are farther away from us, the hills here are rolling in sloping and not nearly so difficult climb.

And I’m done feeling guilty about the paved roads the benches, and the shady trees. Yesterday I had a long stretch in which you know I wasn’t doing well and I kept thinking, “I just want to sit down for a few minutes.” But there was bench so now after griping about how the amenities affect the camino I’m now just going to be grateful for the ones that I do see.

Buen Camino

15 miles today