It’s all about the timing.

Jo had decided that as we were going to be walking 30km today we would need to leave early. She also wanted to see the sunrise.

So alarm set for 5.30 for a 6.00 start. The time that some restaurants were starting breakfast.

Unfortunately it took me longer to get started so it wasn’t untill 6.15 when we finally set out.

We passed the cafe serving breakfast as the queue was already 20 deep, and we were on the road again. Not first to leave as there were already people ahead of us.

As we walked along the track a cruch, crunch, crunch behind us got louder. I turned around to see a group of 60 students catching us. However they paused to regroup after crossing a main road. A couple of km later a murmuring started behind us, the noise grew louder and louder until it was nearly deafening, and 6 Spanish people passed by. How come 6 people can make so much more noise than 60 students.

We passed the students resting several times throughout the day and I guess they passed us while we took our rest breaks.

The walk today was very pleasant mainly on gravel paths and through woods although the times without shade were grueling in the heat.

The thing about timing is that with our start time and the breaks taken during the day we found ourselves in the troughs between the waves if walkers, and had the road to ourselves for the majority of the day.