Well, I´m siting here icing my mala rodilla (bad knee) with a block of frozen spinach (which I plan on eating later with this little bottle of balsmaic salad dressing they gave me on the airplane.

Did I ever mention how, on my rescheduled flight, they put up front in the business class?! Well, they did. I had a whole giant seat that reclined fully, and they gave us nearly-real food... I actually slept on the plane. An amazing experience.

But back to Spain: I am very close to halfway! Santiago is 400-some km away. I am in a not-very exciting town called Unquera, on my way out of the Cantabria and on to Asturias (which I´ve been told is much more beautiful and less tourist-y than the beach-resort locura of the Cantabrian region).

The weather has held out nicely: only one day of rain in the past week, I think. And in a way, the rain offers a nice reprieve from the sun sun sun.

The pavement walking certainly gets to my knee more than anything else. But don´t worry, I have all the good stuff: a knee brace and arnica gel and yes, some ibuprofen too...

Off we go!