A nice walk from Astorga to Rabanal. I had (another) leisurely morning and therefore had the path to myself for much of the day. 

It is a couple weeks earlier in the season than when I was here last time and there are definitely fewer peregrinos on the path. 

So my advice if you’re planning on doing the Camino and want a little elbow room on the trail is to come early in the season but don’t be in a rush to leave too early in the mornings. I think summertime with it’s crowds must be an entirely different experience.

Until I met up with Ed &  Bunny for dinner yesterday I hadn’t really heard any English at all during the day. That is until the bar where I had my comida was playing a steady rotation of old Motown artists. — Al Green, the Tem0tations, Isaac Hays, etc. 

So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I found myself singing the theme song to “Shaft’ all afternoon 

🎶 he’s a complicated man but no one understands him but his woman, John Shaft  🎶

I don’t know why I’m including this.