……..became our theme song as we began to realize that spending a little time on the camino was at the mercy of the weather. We left San Sebastián on Monday morning and had already changed our tentative plans to hike part of the camino because of bad weather that was settling in for a few days. We praised ourselves for being flexible and then realized that you would have to be stupid to head out in the weather we were experiencing. It was not cold but in one day we experienced cloud, sun, mild rain showers, torrential rain, thunder, lightening……….and the worst of all, sleet again! We were travelling the camino by car and rather than feeling guilty because we weren’t walking, we were thrilled that we were under cover. We were driving on coastal roads, Coste Verde, that brought us along many seaside villages but the weather was so wild in terms of wind and rain mainly, we could hardly stand up. We drove through some great spots and finally by 3pm we thought we should settle in somewhere and booked a two bedroom apt. in Ribadeo. Lone behold we did not expect this little seaside village of 10,000 people would provide us with the best meal since we came to Spain. Trip Advisor, on the other hand, knew different! We totally enjoyed, finally, paella and duck and all the trimmings.
We are headed south tomorrow and the plan is still to do part of the camino but so much depends on the weather and it is not looking good.. Thus far we have had a wonderful trip in Spain and although hiking the Route of the Monasteries did not work for a variety of reasons we are hopeful that a few days on the camino will…..and, if not, we will make the best of it.  No matter what,  we are not dealing with white Juan II which we heard is on it’s way to Nova Scotia…..stay safe!