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This journal entry is entitled ¨Foncebaddon does not look like this¨.
Continuing on my day off yesterday, I saw ANOTHER museum. It was a ham museum. Although, i think they just slapped the sign on the front of a processed meat shopped.
My hands are REALLY tanned at the moment. And my face a bit too but my hands, well they look a bit ridiculous when i'm wearing short sleeve tops. They are really really brown. Actually, i don't think my skin has ever been this colour before. I'm afraid my hands will be looking like a 90 year old while the rest of me ages gracefully.
I was eating dinner at the end of the day in a park with a spectacular view of the mountains and an awesome sunset. I had Camembert, ham, anchovy-stuffed olives, bread, delicious tomatoes and vegies. This dog comes by and it was the second dog off it's lead that had come sniffing around my dinner. But no big deal. I'm giggling at this dumb dog not answering his owner when i turn around and see him pissing on the bag with my food in it!! It was so funny. He's lucky it was on the outside of the bag. Dirty mongrel.
This morning, i wake to the sound of a french lady nagging her husband about something and him telling her to shut up so as not to wake me.... too late. But thanks monsieur.
Today's walk has been the best one in a while, weather and scenery. Heading over the mountains into Galittttttttttttthhhhhia (Galicia).
I'm having some serious issues with sugar and chocolate at the moment. CRAVINGS!! Oh well, there are worse things you could be hooked on... pokies. Smack. So it's not really the end of the world.
I got to this town Foncebaddon where i want to stay. The albergue is full. I feel a bit like Mary and Joseph and their donkey. Except that i don't get a barn with horses and sheep. Instead, i get to sleep in the church with God. I chose to, though. Sleeping in a cold church with God is better than in a room with 20 smelly old people snoring.
At dinner i eat the pilgrim's menu at a 'medievil' restaurant. There is one other restaurant and probably about 100 people in this town, if that.
Bread and wine, great. Cooked carrot, eggplant, zucchini etc, and some cooked apple (interesting but good), Cured ham (like prosciutto), drizzled with olive oil. The fish is absolutely beautiful. Split through the middle and fried in a pan. It's fresh and delicious. To put it mildly, the meal is gourmet. Then dessert comes out. It's Icecream Nesquick on a stick. The equivalent of a paddle pop. Fluoro yellow wrapper and all. These spaniards astound me sometimes. It's very funny.
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