Passion flowers and cows- going to Galicia

Hi,
I am now in Galicia, the green corner of Spain. It reminds me so much of Ireland, folds of green hills dotted with cows and sheep. Yesterday and today I walked to two high points on the Camino, I gained 500 meters in 10k. It was very steep and so much fun to do. I love going up hill. The weather has been unbelievable warm and clear. Yesterday I walked from Villafranca to O Cebreio. Isn´t that a beautiful name? I will tell you the passion flower story first. Remember when I said I walked with a Spanish man who showed me all those great herbs? Well, starting out of Villafranca he started to walk with me again. He doesn´t speak English but we were able to communicate pretty well. His name is Enrique. While we were walking he picked a passion flower and attached it to my packpack. They are gorgeous by the way. We walked for a while and then I stopped for coffee and he went on. Later he called to me from a park where he was having lunch. I also saw a German woman who I knew from before and who is about his age I would guess ( 38-40) and we all talked. I went on. About an hour later Enrique and the German woman passed by me. They waved; she had a passion flower on her backpack. Yesterday I saw them in O Cebreio and they invited me to have a glass of wine with them. Enrique showed us the pictures on his camera and there was one of me. He explained to the German woman and she to me that he thought I was a "chickas" and tried to get a picture of me but I was too fast for him to get a close up. He thought we were the same age and that I had white hair just like he does and he wanted to meet me because I was a strong walker. And here I thought he was a biologist.
The cow. As I entered O Cebreio on a narrow path( let´s say three cow widths) a herd of cows started toward me. I thought we could share the path and I just stood off to the side. They kept coming closer, with the man herding them following at the back. The cows were pushing one another and the guy was yelling at them and poking them with a stick. They weren´t that nice to one another. I caught the eye of the cow coming toward me and I saw her say "traveler, you have ten seconds to get out of my way." Her horns were really big, as was she. Luckily I found a step in the stone wall to get up on and they passed without incident.
Last night I stayed in a hotel because the night before I got no sleep. I went out to dinner with three people from Canada and when I got back to my hotel, the barman showed me how to unlock the door to let myself out in the morning. I was the only one staying in the hotel and he was going home. So I spent the night alone in a hotel-bar. When I got into bed I smelled something really sweet and nice and I thought it was a fabric softener. As I lay in the dark the smell became more familiar- it was Raid. I think they sprayed the bed to kill bed bugs. Good and bad. I turned the light back on, checked for anything crawling. Nothing. I turned off the light and had a great sleep.

That´s all from here. I can´t wait to see you guys a week from Friday. Alison,Adam, Erika, Benji and Oscar, I hope we can have dinner maybe at the BLB. What do you think?

Love,
Mom-Mary