There will be things that you fall in love with on the Camino. For some people, it is a person. For others, it is the routine, a place, the food. One of the things I really enjoyed as often as I could, was a snack of Cola Cao (basically a hot chocolate) and tortilla (thick egg omelet with potato). I miss it so much, I wrote a little ditty in its memory.
Ode to Cola Cao and Tortilla
Hot days and days cold
Rising mornings to late nights
Feeling young or limping old
Cola Cao with tortilla, please
Walk far, wander slow
Feet and back indulge in fights
Distance is perhaps your foe
Cola Cao and tortilla, frees
Bathed in mud and washed in rain
Dried by wind in sunny lights
Warding off snow all in vain
Cola Cao con tortilla, tease
Days short and days long
Walks alone yet walks are might
Love of Frances ever strong
Cola Cao and tortilla, geas
Chatty times, silence fan
Words to share when words are right
Yet nothing more is said than
Cola Cao and tortilla, please.
If you’re curious about other types of meals and snacks one can expect along the Camino Frances, check out this post.
Someone just recently told me that a tortilla in Spain is an omelet, and here it is! it would be a great surprise if one were expecting a Latin American tortilla.
hahaha! most definitely!
Ha! Silly but well done, I can tell you’re in love!
You’ll have to make me this (or a me appropriate equivalent)!
hehe! for sure!