Day 8 To Viana

Day 8 Sept 16 Destination Viana - 623 km to go.

“Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate, and though I oft have passed them by, a day will come at last when I shall take the hidden paths that run west of the moon, east of the sun”
-Frodo

Today is the same distance as yesterday. Made it to Viana. 1219-2019 AD. 800 years young. Very cool town Very good day !

Iglesia del Asunción de Santa Maria - look at the sculpted details of muscles of the criminal on the right! I wonder if he was the one that made it to Paradise that day? (Truly I say to you, today….Lk 23:43) Started 13th century finished in 1500s

Harvest has started - we enter La Rioja region tomorrow

Katy from Czech Republic, yo, y Susanna from Denmark. A ‘grape’ photo moment

I’ve never met a cairn I haven’t liked (adding to)

Part of the ‘why’

yup…..

Chiara, from Venice, joined our table and asked if she could start playing her ukulele & sing - of course ! (plenty of room in her 7 kg backpack to bring a musical instrument along for 800 km of Camino!) She just finished her college degree in Interfaces & Communication Technologies and is intending a career in artificial intelligence with advanced studies - sorting out what’s next, possibly, along the Camino…