Day 21: Llanes – Casa Rectoral (22k)

Three weeks. This is the halfway mark. Time to panic.

When not panicking, I eat the best hostel breakfast to date (€2,50 for toast with olive oil and tomato, a Napolitana, coffee and orange juice!) then walk with funny British fake vegan and a German carpenter. They are so entertaining I do no thinking at all. It’s a great day of fast walking that doesn’t feel like walking because of the company. We talk about mania and drugs and shitting in bushes and restraining courses and insecurity and generally What We’re Going to Do with Our Lives.

After many many kilometres we arrive at an isolated stone house in the countryside, next to a beautiful church. It’s run by a very grumpy man who owns a very beautiful cat that gives Fake Vegan very bad allergies. So after a brilliant dinner of lentil salad (German Carpenter), wine and sardines in tomato sauce (me) , tortilla (Fake Vegan) and cheese (new mushroom-carrying Belgian guy) we move outside and watch the sunset from the roof of some kind of countryside construction (Potato cellar? Dungeon?) while listening to German schlagers.

It’s a beautiful house. I’m still reading. I meditate under an oak tree. Maybe I’ll panic more tomorrow.

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