Day 5 already! I made breakfast while watching the sun struggle through the mists as it rose and before smacking us with its heat. THis had been a particularly hot summer in Spain, and many regions had been affected by wildfires. This was a big concern for me as I prepared to take time off work for this trip, but there wasn’t anything that I could do besides look up websites that tracked fires and tried my best to understand them with no knowledge of spanish.
Matti and I left at the same time that morning, rounding the hill beside the hunting lodge and climbing to the top. And what a view we got! Turning around, you could see the green adn brown hills jutting out from a sea of fog between the peaks, filling the valleys like nothing I had ever seen before. I got one of my favourite photos of the trip here, and it was a great start to the day.
As we hiked, Matti and I talked, or I should more accurately say, I talked, and got to know each other a bit. He’s also an engineer, loves reading, and was also vegan! So many similarities right off the bat. We hiked past oodles of sheep, met some horses, and continued on to some sort of nature reserve where we found tunnels from a defence network that had been built to separate Spain from France.
