Ferentillo to Don Bosco (6h/16km)

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Old Irish blessing

Sunday, 28.5.2017, Don Bosco

I'm here! I'm happy! I'm in love!
What a wonderful day!But let me start at the beginning... which was yesterday evening.
Shortly after me the "German guys" arrived at my stay too and it turned out that only one of them was really from Germany, the others were from Canada and Austria. I had a long talk in the garden with the German and he told me about the amazing trips he already did together with his Canadian friend. They crossed the USA from north to south and wandered along the Olafs trail in Norway just to mention two of their journeys. They invited me to join them for diner, but we didn't find a restaurant. So we decided to buy just vine, beer, bread and ham and eat together in the beautiful garden. Was better then any restaurant could have been!
Next morning I left an hour after them, the cute maybe five year old girl of the house saying "bye bye" to me.
Although I was a little bit afraid of the tough carpio mountain passage it turned out to be an easy way. The beginning was quite steep, but quite beautiful too. As I arrived at my first goal and wanted to have a break, the dutch pilgrims already waited at this spot.They invited me to join and soon the first talks started, exchanging stories and experiences.I stayed with them for maybe half of the distance and it turned out that they had a lot to tell. And every one of them had a important piece of information for me. Dirk told me about the Israel trail, a path that I was searching information about since my last Camino, because there is still the third big catholic pilgrimage to Jerusalem in my head. Marco shared his knowledge bout plants and flowers with me, now I have to dig deeper and not only find out about the "pulmonaria officinalis". And finally, at our lunch break, I had the spontaneous idea of reciting my pilgrimage poem to them. Then Ike mentioned that it reminds her of an old irish blessing and sang parts of it to us in her beautiful voice.
Of course that were just some of the precious pieces we shared!
I told them a little bit of my story, about what brought me on the way to search for love.
Sharing my life with them filled me once again with a deep feeling of thankfulness for every moment of my life. I feel rewarded, I feel pride and I feel humility...
After this break I decided to walk a little bit on my own, to be able to let my thoughts fly - and with the music of DubFx and James Blunt they carried me like on wings easily uphill to Don Bosco.
What beauty around, what beauty within... all feels right and matching!