I left Puebla with Sonia, Jorge and Nani and the two on horseback, Xosé and Alberto, were not far behind. Sonia, is a Basque girl, very lively and very kind.  She entertained me by playing rock music on her phone, in between texting her boyfriend. I could feel that what passed for the real world was crashing in all around me.

Those heady days on the  Meseta seemed very far away, but such is the Camino.  Jorge and Nani are from Murcia, and were on a short walking holiday.  Xosé and Alberto and the horses were on their own cultural adventure to preserve Galician culture.  They spoke Galician and were delighted to hear that I spoke Irish.

This was a hard walk on roads, at first, but then through beautiful, remote countryside, where wolves still roam free, to Lubián.