So last night couldn’t really sleep – on again off again I guess. I realized how funny I thought I was the other day when we were on our free walking tour with our guide. We were at the castle and getting our history lesson when she started talking about witches and how the new king had decided that if you were a witch – then they would get rid of you (burn). It was pretty gruesome really – they killed over 4000 people. (now to the funny part for me)

So here we are, and she’s asking the group – so how did they know you were a witch? Various answers such as “red hair”, “left handed”, etc. came out – which were true and in fact did prove you were a witch. I leaned over to Cindy and said “a duck!” – which of course she instantly grabs my arm as in the “don’t you dare”. These are the times where in my head I’m truly funny – and I mean Seinfeld sort of funny, but alas Cindy doesn’t always seem to find it funny. I think she doesn’t want the attention pointed in her general direction.

So after our group history lesson we started walking down the path, where I then went up to our guide and said – “the other way they knew you were a witch is if you weighed the same as a duck…” Our guide, realistically was 25 or less sort of looked at me funny – and said “what?”. I of course was amused with myself – but had to explain Monty Python’s skit to her about being made of wood, weighing the same as a duck, etc.

I don’t think she had ever seen it – but she is a theater major and loves acting so my hope is she will watch it and being made of wood will be part of her storytelling from now on.

Today while walking I also realized that I continue to be on the quest for the holy grail – having traveled on the camino last year with my coconut horse, and now I’m looking for witches made of wood! Oh the fun of it all – my friend Bob would be so proud.

The wifi code in the place we are staying is some 16 letter code that neither of us can read – so just an easy post today (no photos really). Great hike today 11.5 miles – pretty easy really but legs are a bit tired – nothing a beer won’t fix.