Mansilla

Had a lovely dinner last night with Vicky and Chris (bad feet--catching a cab today) from Brisbane, Phillipa and Judith from the UK and Sylvia from the US. We all seem to be travelling much the same pace, though the UK girls are going home tomorrow and coming back in spring to complete it. We set off this morning under the stars again. We are coming to love this first hour of each day before the sun comes up and it seems to extend the distance we can comfortably do in a day to around 20 kms. Though having said that I ran out of steam today at about the 17 km mark of a 19 km trek. Anne still had energy up front and did a good job dragging me along. We searched for about 25 minutes for the place we were staying and eventually discovered, mainly through sign language that the place we had booked had changed its name and was there right in front of us the whole time. We had a 13 km stretch today but were rewarded at the end of it by a wonderful tortilla, a sort of omlette, filled with tomato and lettuce and chorizo and other things I was too busy to notice as I wolfed it down accompanied by a couple of coffees.