May - July 2016
El Camino de Santiago del Norte & El Camino Primitivo
900km through the Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia.
Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise
from that plain, and no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to
his squire,
"Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves
could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or
forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war
and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a
service God will bless."
"What giants?" asked Sancho Panza.
"Those you see over there," replied his master, "with their long arms. Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length."
"Take care, sir," cried Sancho. "Those over there are not giants but
windmills. Those things that seem to be their arms are sails which, when
they are whirled around by the wind, turn the millstone."
— Don Quixote, Part 1, Chapter VIII