Ponte Compana

We met up with our friend Carla from South Africa in Palas  de Rea.
  We hadn't seen Carla since Santa Domingo on May 28th.  We heard through the Camino grapevine that she was behind us and we knew it was just a matter of time before we connected again..actually we had seen her briefly in Leon, also.

Anyway, turns out Carla is staying at Casa Domingo in the tiny hamlet of Ponte Company the same as Sharon & I. Our room is in a very old flour mill and it is beautiful.  The old mill sits on a creek and part of it is diverted to run under the building.  As soon as I am settled, I go exploring.  The place is fascinating.  On the ground floor, there are still the working parts of the old mill.  Sorry, I don't know the technical terms for the machinery.  In one section, the floor has been but away and a piece of plexiglas has been put down so you can see the water running under the stone building.  I bet the building is  300 to 400 years old.  I love it. From our room we could hear the creek flowing.  Lulled us to sleep.

We went over to the Alberque for dinner.  There were just 6 of us... Sharon & I and Shane(Colorado), Molly (Ohio), Carla (South Africa) and Jesus (Madrid).  The dinner was delicious and included what I took to be chicken.  Carla said no it's rabbit and Sharon refused it.  I said it tastes like chicken.  When we thanked the hospiteleras and Carla commented on how good the rabbit was, the host said "that was chicken".  Cracked me up!

I also had a great time talking with Jesus who speaks very little bit English and I speak very little Spanish.  We had a great time talking about walking the Camino using hand gestures and what little we knew of each others language.

Carla walked on ahead of us today, but we will meet up again in Santiago in a couple days.  Yes...we are close!