I am in San Xulian. It is a small town outside of Palas del Rey. All the tour groups stop in Palas Del Rey so we went 3 kms outside. It is a quiet little village and there are no groups staying here. The Albergue is very small with only 12 beds ... but all my camino friends ended up thinking the same thing and here we all are. It is amazing how it all turned out. Nancy from Portland, The Danes the Hungarians and my two new American friends from Jersey, also Lois from Germany.
The crowds who have joined this journey are just incredible right now. There are two groups of 150 participants each, all walking the camino with us today. One group is all adults and one is all children. Add to that the many many school groups as well and small groups of adults. The traffic is insane. I like to believe that it is God reminding me that the real world is soon coming back and I will have to keep my Camino in my heart even when the outside world is crazy around me. I can hardly believe I only have 69 kilometers to go. I will be there in two and a half days. The time is going so quickly now, but it wasn't always that way during the wheat field days.
This little town also has a monastery. I thought the pictures of the crusades on the walls quite interesting. It really is small and the pictures don't share a lot.
Leischen is totally missing the movement of farm animals on this trip. This town also uses the street to take their cattle to market. I am going to look through her camera shots, but she has never mentioned any of these farm events as she has traveled across Spain.
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