Chapter 32

Ponferrada – Villafranca

Kari, Ali, Jean, Connie

“Back home in Boston someone had told Jean that she would be known as Juanita in Spain and she made the booking in this name. We heard the hospitalero laugh out loud. 

‘What’s so funny?’ asked Juanita, in Spanish.

‘That’s a name you only hear in old movies from the 50s,’ he replied.

From then on she was Juanita to us. Complete with cherry red lips, plunging neckline and a big black comb in her hair.”