We are down to the last 100 km (about 60 miles) to Santiago! Tonight we are in an albergue with 94 beds, and we are definitely starting to see more pilgrims on the road, as many come to just do the last 100 or 200 km. It doesn’t seem fair, but completing the final 100 km awards you the credential of completing the Camino. Oh well.
Two days ago was a long uphill walk that was mostly in the rain. While it could have been a miserable day, we had fun doing it with some pilgrim friends we’ve been with for the past ten days or so – Daniel from Germany and Claudia and Isabel, two cousins from Madrid, Spain. On that same day though we toured the cathedral in Mondonedo. Highlights included seeing some of the oldest frescos in Galicia and getting stamped in our pilgrim’s passport with a two hundred year old stamp. The WiFi is very slow in today’s albergue so I will have to wait to upload those pics.
Today’s walk was very beautiful through forests and rolling hills. Much of it was done with Camino friends, Dean and Sarah from Dallas, but soon to be Denver residents! That’s them on the medieval stone bridge, Ponte de Saa, which we crossed today.
Our plan at this point is to continue at a 20 km per day pace, which will put us in Santiago on July 11. We fly back to Paris on July 13 and will spend four nights there at an Airbnb.