Life's a Stitch

This really is a knitting blog, disguised as a Camino blog. For the benefit of those seeking yarn and needles I present a yarn bombed tree in Ponferrada back when it was sunnyish.

When we returned to Ponferrada yesterday, our sweet woman cab driver, when told of the missing rainpants, drove us by the Decathalon super sports store, making sure we knew the location for when the store was open. I guess our Spanish is getting to an understandable level.

In terms of Spanish, C is responsible for making room reservations and I for ordering meals, due to my extensive food vocabulary. Go figure.

Back to the caper of the rainpants. C is convinced they were taken from our transfer pack. A little background: we are carrying items to get us overnight if necessary, plus all our medications, phones, chargers… When we made the decision to stay in hostels we no longer needed our sleeping bags, liners or towels. We've used one of the Camino transfer services for those items plus a few more not needed on a daily basis, such as our rain gear.

This is not the first time an item has gone missing. Our folding "Kitchen Sink," brought for foot and ankle ice dips, also never used, disappeared. We check our rooms thoroughly each day after I presumably forgot my bag of toiletries at the beginning of the trip.

Today C intentionally tied the transfer bag in a unique way and sure enough, when we received our bag, it was tied differently. I guess we should have brought Mari's PacSafe. A sad lesson learned. Can't pin the transfer service as the bag sits mostly unattended at hostels pre and post delivery.

Back to today, Decathalon was a 20 minute walk. I found some acceptable basic rainpants for 15e. Nothing like my fancy previous pair. Perhaps this is a lesson in pilgrimage simplicity.

Cabbing back to Camponaraya we conversed with the cab driver. After lightheartedly indicating his annoyance with a call from his wife I was able to tell him in Spanish that women are always right.

We walked in and out of rain today, over rolling hills and through vineyards, with a downpour in the final hour.

The positive side of rain is a rainbow:

It's still pelting with rain tonight and accuweather is predicting a change at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. We'll see how accurate a prediction it is.