Day 4: Los Arcos - Viana

Via SANSOL and TORRES DEL RIO
Approx 18km

Another fabulous day, starting with a scrumptious breakfast of fresh grainy bread and jam with lots of coffee. I headed off with Cathy again and we had another day full of funny conversations. We had some company for the morningwith Harry from Germany and Stefan from Austria joining us.


We had a hilarious coffee stop at Torres Del Rio - Cathy and I discovered a packet of chips called Nakas...yes we are childish, but I don't think we stopped laughing for almost half an hour. What made it even funnier was that Stefan and Harry had no idea what was so funny.


After that, Cathy and I were on our own again and we walked until came across a sweet little house and decided to have our picnic in the sunshine. Before too long we were joined by Renato (Ronnie) from Rome, and we sat there in the sunshine for about an hour and a half playing eye spy and just being very happy little chappies. The three of us walked the rest of the way to Viana together, where we stayed at a lovely Albergue, which was a converted monestry.







I think I saw the best sunset of the Camino at Viana:



We had a lovely meal, cooked by Ronnie and after dinner we had a fantastic little session with the others staying at the Albergue - people who would become very special to me on my journey: Otmar from Germany, Hermann from Italy, Harry and Stefan and Steffi from Germany.

* We noticed something strange going on with the hedges in Spain today.....they just didn't look right....What do you think?


We named them 'instahedge'! Where Christmas trees go to die......