Day 15 – No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

What a great day!!!!  We started with a long 17km of gentle farmlands (and no facilities!), with a final 10km of gently rolling hills into Terradillos de Templarios – the final stronghold of Jacques de Molay and the Knights Templar.  I loved this walk last year and I loved it again today.   It is funny, this year I’m really not consulting the guide book at all as I seem to remember each step, each emotion and each wonderful memory – I even spent much of today thinking about my folks as I did last year.   So wonderful!!!!!

We stopped for some nourishment after the 17km first part and were joined by Patti and Joy. Not quite sure how we got on the topic, but Rosemary and Patti did some serious eye rolling as Joy and I took off on a Monty Python dump.  To be fair, Joy may have started it – not a chance, I did.  You just can’t help saying “no one expects the Spanish Inquisition” here (oh no, not the comfy chair!!!).  It seems one of Joy’s friends sent her the video of the fish slapping dance when Joy was thinking of bailing on the Camino with the note that this was her way of slappping some sense into her.   Oh dear, we progressed to the argument, 4 Yorkshire men, the Lumberjack song (I told Rosemary she wouldn’t have picked up on the title of yesterday’s post) etc.  Too much fun!!!

Given the very long walk today, we shipped Rosemary’s bag, which I think we will do again tomorrow as there is another near 30km on the agenda.  We will both make it!!!  And it is soooooo lovely to be receiving almost daily emails from last year’s Camino family encouraging us on.

As today’s walk was lovely and serene but not a whole lot different in scenery, I don’t have too many pics.  However, as you will see, we are enjoying a gin & tonic.

Love to all.