Things Siobhán doesn't like

So I've been walking with my sister for five days now. In these five days you can see how someone starts the camino. The first day is happiness, prancing around excited and fast as a fleet of foxes. The second is delicate, but determined, the third the first blisters start to peek and the calf muscles from constant up start to tear apart, the fourth, going down after going up decides to pull the thighs apart, and day five, easy peasy, 24km on flat ground.

She really sped me up to a pace of around 5km an hour, I had been only doing around 4km an hour before this, but she is speedy. She has been in training for this since my parents got back from the camino in September and initiated a strict walking policy. No dinner would be got if a walk hadn't been done during the day. She was telling me that if she didn't get a walk in, she felt it and wouldn't feel better until she got out and moved. Exams were torture for her, all that sitting and no walking, but she sure made up for it in the 5 days.

Siobhan walked a total of 132.2 km from Leon to Villafranca del Bierzo in five days. And we found a number of things that she now has eternal animosity for.

Number 1. Stairs, the arch nemesis that requires her hips to lift her leg higher than they are willing.

Number 2. Cobbles, the nemesis that is tricksy and troubling if each movement after five days of walking has to be carefully planned to avoid unanticipated wobbling, which equals pain.

Number 3. Bananas and flan and the peregrino menu- weird Siobhány things

Number 4. Down, in general, is her least favourite direction.

Number 5. Up is pretty hard too.

Number 6. The last five kilometers to anywhere

Number 7. The weird knarly trees that look like hands from hell that I don't have a photo of.

Number 8. Vineyards, because the vines look diseased and tortured and ugly.