Half Way!

Today we reached the half way mark. I've travelled over 400km and spent 19 days on the Camino. The last few days on the Meseta have been along flat dusty tracks covered in loose stones. I am grateful for my hiking boots, walking poles and intersting travel companions. We sing songs, tell stories and keep alert for the odd lizard, rabbit or snake. There are few animal inhabitants of the Meseta but thousands of birds / their songs fill the air and the bushes are alive with them. In the villages, storks take up residence on church towers and every nest has a young one waiting for food. Storks make a clacking sound and sometimes it's the only sound we hear when we enter a village. Along this part of the Camino there are some near deserted villages. It seems that young people move to the big cities for work and the elderly inhabitants who remain live quietly inside during the day. Luckily the villages with albergues are happening places once we all arrive!