Post by Wynette: Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago often talk about Camino angels. Today we met our first on this Camino. We had a delicious lunch in the restaurant shown above. At that point we had walked 10 miles, about 2 more than our preferred daily distance. We had 2.5 more of a lot of up and down to get to our hotel. I asked the restaurant owner if he could give us the phone number of a taxi to call just in case my burning feet gave out. We really thought we could do the last 2.5 with no problem but thought it would be nice to have the taxi number just in case. Not sure how much I managed to communicate of that in my limited Spanish because next thing we knew he was hustling us to his car and saying he would drive us. He explained as we were getting into the car that the taxi would have to come from 10 miles away and would be too expensive. These Spanish people don’t mess around. And are so generous. He had a beautiful car with red leather seats and he drove fast. We were there in no time. Kind of eerie to arrive at your destination in 5 minutes when it would have taken over an hour to walk it.
We are still learning about the infrastructure for pilgrims on the Camino del Norte. On the Camino Frances (the “main” Camino) every tiny town has somebody who runs a little taxi service because there is so much demand for taxis there. Looks like that is not the case on the Norte.
No taxi service? Where have I encountered that before? Carlsbad, NM?
Yes, you did find an angel. So very thoughtful and generous of him.