Day 18 - Monday November 20th - walking from Fromista to Cazadilla de la Cueza ( 36km)

I got an early start to the day I walked out of Fromista feeling like I was in Saskatchewan until the sky cleared and I saw snow capped mountains on the horizon to my right.

I made a short stop in Carrion de los Condes to visit a church and the grocery store. As I started out on the long 17km stretch a Spanish man and Japanses man caught up with me. They had a slightly faster pace than me, but I thought it was best not to get stuck on the long stretch by myself. The sun was out and there was a light wind. We walked for quite a while on a long, flat path. At one point I was excited because there was a sign that rea Cañada which means animal crossing in Spanish. I lost track of time as we walked, but the sun was getting lower in the sky. The Spanish man said that over the next hill the town would appear and said a few magic ´Cha cha cha´ which in English would be ´Da da da ´ and lucky for us we saw a tower on the horizon. There were some funny moments when we asked the Japanese man if he was alright and he answered yes and then said his body was saying no.

Today I mailed a small parcel of things that I have been carrying to my friends in Bilbao to make my bag lighter, but mostly to carry more food weight. Other pilgrims have the option of sending themselves parcels to the post office in Santiago and I know of quite a few people have been done so. One thing I decided to ship was my pocket Spanish- English dictionary. I haven´t really been using it and it is fun to play charades or descriptive games to figure out words. I recently learned what the hunters that I see and hear every weekend have been tracking. It seems to be rabbits and ´perdices´ ( I understood to be wild chicken, but someone with a dictionary can confirm)