Day 19 Climb Every Mountain day

Actually the Hills weren´t alive with the sound of music but with a lot of grunts today.
We had a great Albergue Peregrino meal at Las Aquedas in Murias the night before and it was a great stay ( except for the lady in the bunk above me who kept thrashing around all night in a marathon wrestling contest...but all good for an Albergue)
The sunrise was magnificent as we looked back and it heralded a bright sunny day.

Our first objective was a 16km climb up to Rabanal del Camino 1156m and we made good time and as we gained height views of the land opened up.
The guy from Newcastle England passed us early. Despite his friendly gibes about the Ashes, and how can you respond to that?, he was good company and had come also from St Jean and had some Meseta stories.

There were many pilgrim bike riders including a good group of guys from Argentina but they also had to grind up the hills and compete with kamikaze motor bike riders.

At Rabinal. a sleepy little Pueblo for a Sunday we had a quick coffee and decided to push on the 6km to Foncebadon just over 1400m. This would mean that we would be in striking distance of the 1500m peak which is the highest point on the Camino.

It was hard but a steady rate got us up in 90 minutes and we found LUXURY
A beautiful mountain Albergue Convento de Foncebadon and we have our own room. Google that name and you will get a picture as I can´t get a usb port on this computer.
Oh well this all seems a bit ho hum and I can imagine that you haven´t been up this way it is all a bit droll.
You may wish to switch off at this stage
THE SPIRIT OF ST JAMES
mmm to be a bit more boring I have had some more thoughts in the past week about the spirit of James the Apostle
The shortened version.
He was yes a passionate individual, ready to have a go, take a risk, adventuresome as I previously described....and these are all just my perceptions remember.
I think though that his spirit was more about his love for people, his relations ship with people. Well he heard it many times in travelling with Jesus, the message to love others as you love yourselg, as I ( Jesus) have loved you...
Are you still with me?
He goes right over to Spain forms a community, comes back with his Spanish friends to help his friends in Jerusalem when he hears they are in trouble. He is executed for his troubles and then supposedly his friends regarded him so highly that they took his body all the way back to Spain....so his relationships must have been very strong....What other apostle had friends act in the same way as this is recorded with James ?
And for centuries people have been travelling enormous distances sharing the camaraderie of the Camino to visit Sant Iago
Really as I have walked I have thought that in the end , Relationships, are all that count anyway. All the things I have thought important don´t seem to have the same significance compared with those I love specially and those who have other degrees of relationship. Maybe this is then the spirit that James had.
Yes I am stating the obvious .... I won´t get on this subject again.... unless I think up some other scenario about James!!!!!!!!
Back to the Mountain climbing tomorrow