"Bon Appetit"

A previous blog commented that we had all lost weight durng the walk - Gabriel had to hold his pants up with a shoelace that a Quebecan gave him, likewise Maree, whereas Biz just had to tighten her pack straps! But let us assure you this was due to the walking not to a lack of good food!

Our day started with breakfast of bread (baguette), cheese qnd sometimes jam (we've had no butter for 30 days. If we had no drink we would stop at the first cafe to get a morning shot of tea or coffee ( and sometimes a fresh croissant if tempted - and we often were!). We were careful to have regular water and snack stops - feasting on chocolate, nuts, lollies; biscuits, fruit - all for that necessary shot of energy.

Lunch was either bread, cheese, and extras like olives, tomato, salami and fruit. Sometimes we bought our supplies the day before or had to find a local supermarket or wee shop to buy our lunch: If there was no supermarket we had to buy "tortillas" or "bocadillas" at the locql cafe/bar in the town we were in. Bocadillas are big sandwiches with any filling.

Dinner was either a shared meal of rice or pasta cooked with fellow travellers or a pilgrim meal bought at a local restaurnat for a discount price: We preferred to cook ourselves as it was cheaper qnd usually nicer: Spanish meals were always accompanied by red wine - the cheqpest was NZ 1.80 a bottle: As you can guess we enjoyed our meals. NB Wine is cheaper than bottled water or coke!!!!

Lots of cheese and bread maybe was not so good for the cholesterol levels but balanced by the red wine!

Suffice to say we qre healthy - hqving been well fed and watered.