This guy is the Angel of the Camino, he has completed it 10 times on a bike and four times on foot. He is constantly rounding up stragglers or anyone who's having problems and sorting them out. From where to buy what, to where to eat and in which hostel to stay, Injarki has it organized. An average day for us consists of getting up as noiselessly as possible as there can be anywhere from 10 - 50 people in a room. Grab a coffee and a piece of bread and jam and hit the road in the semi dark, we have been walking 8-9 hours a day in an attempt to get ahead of a huge increase in pilgrims starting closer Santiago and making it difficult to get rooms. We stop for coffee and a change of sox after 2 hours, constantly eat chocolates and drink coke. Lunch will be fritata on bread or Bacon and eggs and diner at night will be genially at a restaurant that caters to peligrinos with a three course meal that is basic tasty and cheap,generally around $8 euros. We eat bread constantly and it is better than anything I have ever eaten in OZ. You stumble into the Hostels around three or four in the afternoon, have a shower when there free, wash your cloths by hand and hang to dry, have a quick walk around the village to get water, fruit and chocolates for the next days walk, go to the chemist for body repairs, go out to diner and collapse in bed, bottom bunk if your lucky and then attempt to get some sleep with the farting and snoring. Doesn't sound very appealing but we have a great group of irreverent and reverse blokes and have a lot of laughs, mostly at ourselves..
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