If it was not for Elke I would have missed the horse in a zebra coat, peacefully grazing at the top of a field. But it was me who spotted the train in a tree. It was a small toy carriage, placed into a fold near the base of the trunk. It is just visible, as a splash of bright green, if you expand the photograph. We guessed it had been deliberately placed there to add interest to a child’s daily walk, or perhaps was a clue in a scavenger hunt. Whatever the reason for placing it there, it obviously needed to be left alone.
Through a combination of pedalling for two 20 minute sessions, added to the distance we covered during this walk, I managed to travel the 17km to Casazorrina. For lunch we had a picnic on a bench in the middle of a field overlooking wooded hilltops. I had bought falafel wraps in a supermarket and it felt really odd to be so wary of the packaging and its potential for carrying the virus, in such a rural idyll, completely devoid of other people. I sanitised my hands, unwrapped the food, sanitised my hands again, ate the food. What a palaver.
It is going to take a long time to get to San Salvador. I am aiming for another 13km tomorrow, which includes the few kilometres we need to walk to get to Salas. After wandering around the town for a bit, we will tackle the uphill section to La Espina where there will be somewhere to buy coffee and a peaceful hostel called the El Texu. Sometimes guitar playing monks call by. We may be lucky.
Virtual Camino 