We stopped in Belarado today, a town of crumbling walls, majestic streetlamps, and vibrant graffiti murals. Storks nest in the roof of the old white stone church. We went to Panadería Paisano and got homemade donuts, and we wandered the Plaza Mayor and surrounding streets, lined with the cast-metal footprints of famous people, set amid the stones. We chatted and talked serious and lazed and laughed in the Albergue Cuatro Cantones, which had a spacious lawn and a dining room and a swimming pool and suspiciously only cost 5€ per person. We took a break from cooking and had the best fish, merluza (hake), in the whole world. I got some scary (but all fine now) updates from home and felt the love of friends new and old, of family near and far.
Julia, I'm sure the last few days have been stressful. Hang in there, and know we are all thinking of you.
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