Day 28 - 26k - Vega de Varcarce - A Jockey´s Jockstrap

Up early this morning and walked 8 kms to Villafranca for breakfast, with decent scenery by my new standards. Villafranca is a lovely old town in a valley. Most of the other punters stayed there last night. Had breakfast there and bought a pack lunch and decided to take an 11k walk through the mountains rather than a 10k walk along the flat by the road. It was hard going but the scenery was worth it. Had the hang sandwich on top of the mountain for lunch. Didn´t meet too many punters on that trail mind you. I think they are all preparing themselves for the toughest day of the Camino tomorrow which has a very steep climb. After descending from the mountain we walked about 8 k. We had intended to walk on another 2 k (to ¨base camp´) but the rain started. We pulled into the municipal Albergue which we were passing and then the skies opened. There were hailstones as well. So after 26 days walking we had one day of rain and one day with a few sun showers. So we are well ahead on the fine weather stakes. There is only one working shower here with two others that are not working that I have seen. Luckily, the PC I am typing this on is beside the door with a healthy breeze running over me.