Sun 25 Sep - A quiet night with chilled wine (again) and ok food.  Must go to a real resturant soon instead of the pilgrim´s meals in the bars. COP start from Carrion heading towards Terradillos de Templarios which is about 27 kms, but with 14 kms before the coffee and breakfast stop.  An almost straight track for 85% of the way following an old roman road, ok it is efficient but very dull walking.  Most peligrinos have the odd blister or 2 by now and there have been a number of treatments.  However, the best at least for prevention seems to be Compeed (trade name) which comes as a roll on stick to try to prevent blisters and as a plasticky plaster if it gets worse.  Both seem to work if use early.  Thereafter, for rubs and blisters on toes the tubes of silicon like material covered with material seem excellent.  These tubes come either ready cut or as one long piece that you can cut to size.  They then just slip over the toe and work very well.  I had a small blister on my little toe and used one of these today and it felt perfect. In the event of a fully developed blister the best treatment still seem to be to drain it (needle or syringe) and clean and dry it with something like surgical spirit - then use a Compeed plaster.  Flies have been an almost constant nusiance and on the trail you seem to collect your own colony that fly around your head and into your mouth and nostrils.  Most uncomfortable, but we got our own back last night when we used rubber bands to shoot them off of the ceiling, its amazing how accurate you can be. Many people use poles to walk with and I use a single one for steep ups and downs.  Some use 2 but I cannot see the benefit and the click, click, click as they walk along a flat gravelled path is most annoying, especially in the quiet of the early morning.  I noticed today that again the route information says we are half way between St Jean and Santiago I guess it must be true by now.  There are also lots of cyclists on the route which can be a little annoying as they have a tendency to zoom past without slowing down or using a bell as a warning.  I guess they assume we can hear them but when we are walking on the stones and gravel our boots often make too much noise.
I must have seen more sunrises in a row since starting this walk than I ever have before.  It is about 0800 before the sun is above the horizon and it was still chilly at 0900.  That said by midday it is well past the mid 20s. Got to TdT just before 1300 and my Spanish is improving as I called ahead to book the beds.  A good AdP (probably the best to date) with 4 to the room (1 bed empty - reserved for S see below) in proper single beds and sheets again all for 8 euros pp.  A simple lunch of rolls and a meal cooked by the owners tonight as less than a 100 people live in the village so there are no bars - but ther eis a large church!  The village name refers to the Templars as this was one of their last strongholds and the AdP is named after the Templar's last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay. C is happy today as her friend Sara from Australia has just landed in Madrid and is planning to join her for the last half of the camino either tonight or tomorrow depending on the trains.  I think she may be in for a shock given that C has been walking for over 2 weeks so is already camino fit.  Off to Calzadilla de los Hermanillos tomorrow.