Taking me to a public albergue where I met my friends Ed and Pat along with my new friend Annabelle who is the volunteer running the albergue for a few days each week.
Along the way I met many friendly people and made a few new friends from Taiwan and New Brunswick. The walk was quite pleasant along beautiful stretches of beach, forgoing the defunct oil refinery just inland.
It was an amazing day to be on the camino and I quickly found myself going back into my pilgrim mode quite quickly and easily. Lots of contimplation and pondering, very little answers. What I did think about was the dynamic of the pilgrimage and the community that almost instantly forms around complete strangers. Tonight's was an example, Ed, Pa, and I asked a swedish lady to join us for dinner. While dining 4 other peregrinos from our albergue we're at the nearby table and we had to many tapas so we shared them with the next table. Later it was unfinished sangria. It is the community of complete strangers not being strangers.
Tomorrow, feet issues aside, I am hoping for a full days walking.
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