Monday, November 30, 2009

Walking in snow


The day started promisingly enough with a clear sky and a weak sun. By 1000 however the first sleet started to fall. I noticed on the overhead signs that lorries were being forbidden from overtaking on the parellel motorway between km96 to km124 because of snow. Broadly my journey today will be km86 to km114 so I suppose I will see some of it. Presently I am on a coffee stop and the snow is swirling outside but is not yet too bad. I have about 20km left to go and I will do all of it on the tarmac. I may even put my boots on instead of my sandals! There are snow covered mountains in every direction now and everything looks very beautiful when the sun appears. I hope it does that a bit more frequently as I do not want to walk the rest of the camino on roads in the snow.