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Three weeks on the road, back to the office on Monday

Updated: Sep 23

We have been on the road for three weeks now and normally we would have to go back to the office on Monday. Not now! Now we feel like we have just left and that is true. Our adventure has only just begun.

Four weeks off

I once went to the North Cape with a camper for four weeks. All other holidays were at most three consecutive weeks. And now I have stopped working for almost 1.5 months and we have only just started our journey. So unreal! Of course I am very curious about how the colleagues and the turnover are doing, but do I miss it? .... No dear people, sorry no. Not yet in any case.


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Budget of €500,-

The first weeks went, as we had planned, at a high pace. In the meantime we have arrived in Spain and the brakes have been put on. This for two reasons; 1 we want to see much more of the area and 2 we have a budget of € 500,- per month for campsites and diesel. Due to the enormous distance we have covered in the first two weeks, that budget for the month of September is almost gone.



Route of Cares

Time to walk more and enjoy the surroundings. The last two days we hiked a total of 40 km. We walked the famous Ruta del Cares . A 24 km walk through a gorge along the river Cares in the nature reserve Picos de Europa . The next day we walked the PR-PNPE-20 from the village of Sotres.



Mission

When you are hiking like this, we are used to looking at passers-by and greeting them.

The Spanish, in our experience, hardly look at you and do not greet you spontaneously. Maybe that is even impolite in this region? So I had a mission... I greeted every passer-by with an extremely cheerful "Holá". Unfortunately, I did not succeed in my mission. After 472 "Holá's" I gave up. Mission failed. Maybe more is needed to change a culture.

"Walking is letting go of everything for a while"

Butter knife in the jam

So what I was actually doing was trying to make others adapt to my 'normal'. Is my normal better? Why do we have this tendency to want to change others to our own standards? I notice that between Kelly and me too. For the first time in a long time, we are now only 8 m2 apart and have no opportunity to distance ourselves from each other. My way of doing things is of course the best and Kelly is allowed to adapt... Or not? Am I allowed to be annoyed by the fact that she goes into the jam with a dirty butter knife so that all the butter remains in it? (Now let's hope she reads this blog 😃) How tolerant am I actually? Traveling together in Globus is a bit different than putting together an IKEA cupboard together.




Satisfying

Don't get me wrong, Kelly and I are doing really well and we are really enjoying ourselves to the fullest. It's quite special that we can so incredibly well be in each other's energy without any irritation. So proud and grateful that we found each other in this and have the opportunity to go on this adventure together.



Where are we?

2,261 km from home! On our previous blog someone commented: "From home? You always have your home with you, don't you?" And that is completely true. It must be the withdrawal symptoms. We are now at Picos de Europa, a mountain range about 20 km south of the Spanish north coast. A beautiful area where you can also hike fantastically. It is very green, which is partly because it rains regularly here, something we have also noticed.


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