Today was a quick walk into Caceres. Andy was eager to see Karen who has been at Caceres for a couple of days resting her knee. We made the 11 kms in about two hours and charged into the old city. This place has lots of medieval buildings in good condition and the old city reminded me of Sienna. After catching up with Karen and discovering her knee is still not healed we headed off to explore the old city. It is really quite marvellous. By 2 pm though they are locking doors so Peter and I head for some lunch and then a siesta. It has turned cold and I feel a bit miserable. It is okay for walking but not much fun sightseeing in the rain and wind I am definitely learning to relax on this Camino. I love my bed or sleeping bag. We meet up about 7 pm for drinks in the square and meet Mr enigma the pilgrim Juan who has us all mystified. He says he is walking but we never see him in front of us or behind. We also reunite with Almut the German pastor we met in Torremeija. She is finishing her Camino today and will return to continue in the autumns. She has suffered shin splints this time and has found the walking hard. We all go to dinner together to a wonderful restaurant which is more upmarket than our usual pilgrim haunts and the food and waitress are amazing. It cost us 20€ each including wine but the atmosphere, food, and service was worth every penny. They had vinyl records as placemats.
It was a wonderful evening and we missed the goings on in the square. It is St George's day and they have celebrations to reenact the recon querying of the city with the help of St George.
It is nearly midnight- very late for a pilgrim.
Our room in Caceres
Her first communion
A view across the roof tops
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