I spent a nice evening yesterday at the albergue and restaurant chatting to an American and a Mexican woman. At Hospital de Bruma there is only the small municiple albergue with 22 beds and it is a horrible bottleneck in terms of accommodation. Tereza and I got up at 6 and set off at 6.30 as contestants in the crazy camino bed race. We went at a racketing pace only stopping for Tereza to take her heart pills and to wipe the sweat off our faces. We communicated in a mixture of Italian English Spanish French and hand gesture. We eventually got to a small bar where we allowed ourselves to have a coffee and the owner added a small madeline cake each and gave us chairs to rest our feet on. We learnt we only had 3km to go to Bruma which was a miracle. I thought we had another 8 km. We arrived first at the albergue with only Roseanna ahead of us as the hospitalera yesterday advised her not to walk but go by taxi. She cried when we arrived. It is now only 10 am and we have 2 more hours till the albergue opens such is the price of athletic excellence.
No comments:
Post a Comment