Day 4
Friday 4th June 2021. The rest day that I had been wise enough to factor in. I woke up this morning and thought I had somebody else's legs. They are easing a bit now. I am in Betanzos, 50 km down and 67 still to do. Just short of halfway.
There's no reason why you should have read any of my earlier blogs but in a couple of them I explained that I had been training for this walk since January, building up stamina and endurance. Lockdown rules meant that I couldn't get to Spain when I wanted to in order to finish the Camino on my 70th birthday, so I did the equivalent number of kilometres around my home in Cambridgeshire. One of my friends did it in the North of Scotland at the same time as I did it around Ramsey. We raised a couple of thousand pounds for our three nominated charities. The point I am laboriously leading up to is that Cambridgeshire is mostly flat! Galicia is anything but! Yesterday I got up to 275 metres, which doesn't sound a lot but, take it from me you know when you've done it!
Yesterday evening I didn't feel like much to eat and simply ordered a cheese and ham sandwich. Then I asked the lady behind the bar for an ice cream with 3 'balls'. Anything at all would do, whatever she came up with. She pulled all the stops out and came up with the creation you see in the picture.
The first picture shows one of the bridges I walked under. When is a bridge not a bridge but a viaduct? The last picture shows the elevations for each day of the walk.
Tomorrow would appear to be the most challenging day. After that it should all be downhill, metaphorically and literally.
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Wow! worth it for the ice cream!
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