We have arrived in Pampolona yesterday. The walk was long, there was a detour through a park that serpentined with the river. The camino typically crosses a hill, which I am sure would have also afforded us a sweet view of the walled city. The river path was pretty, but covered in concrete, which is sore sore on the feet. We have found a lot of the road has been paved and stamped to look like stone. But this was a bike path, turned suburban sidewalk, turned bike path again. It was worth it, though, to walk up a hill and alongside thirty foot walls and over a draw bridge into the old city. We liked it so much, we stayed an extra day.
Turns out that was a great idea. The sky opened up and its 80 ans sunny.
Ben hurt his foot in Germany and TSA stole our camping gas in Baltimore, so we have been a hobbling camp stove-less duo. In a cafe this morning, a fellow pilgrim mentioned he had noticed Bens limp and cane (nothing new there, everyone notices). But turned out this pilgrim is an orthopedic doctor and so Ben got a free consultation and the pilgrim even went insole shopping with us. We found an orthopedic shoe store, sized up Ben's foot, and now he can walk!
This is obviously less awesome, but we also found camping gas, which is very hard to do in europe as they have a different gas-stove attachment system. So this ended a multi week saga/headache.
Most photos from yesterday are on Bens phone and he's lazy. Send your greivences to him.
So yeah, hitting the road again tomorrow.
How lucky to find another pilgrim who is trained in foot care (do pilgrims not identify themselves with names?).
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