Life's a Stitch

The animals of the Camino

The African Grey Parrot, loudly entertaining from across the street from our hotel in Oia, was just one of our animal encounters.

Anyone who has walked the Camino is familiar with the barking dogs. C says they think they are doing a good job scaring the pilgrim's off because that's what pilgrims do, they go on their way. The dog really has nothing to do with it, but they think they do, which perpetuates the barking behaviour. Today we met a very chill dog, he had it figured out. Why waste all that energy barking at the pilgrims when they'll be on their way anyway?

The cats are calm by nature. This one is for our last year's Camino mate, Denise:

But some are fast and sneaky:

This goat seemed friendly at first. Then he appeared to want to get too friendly with C, so we exited quickly. I told C the goat was attracted to the white beard.

Walking over the old one lane bridge out of Arcade yesterday, a distracted driver came awfully close to us. Looking into the river we saw what had her attention – a film shoot of a damsel riding her horse in and out of the water.

Today we spotted swans swimming in a creek.
 A common Camino photo is the caracol, the snail. I often feel like one of them: