2018 Camino Aragonés – Camino Francés – Camino de Invierno – Camino de Fisterra
Today I visited the portico de gloria in the cathedral. I embraced the image / statue of Apostle and visited the tomb.
http://catedraldesantiago.es/en/pilgrimage/#rites
All of this is good in the morning at about 8 o’clock.
Later in the day there are many tourists and you have to wait for a long time.
Today I will eat with K. from Switzerland and tomorrow I travel home…. so I do not know when there will be new posts here.
Yesterday I met again SYates ( she has the ‚pilgrim meetings‘ ) and Vince from Hungary. He took today the train to Madrid and then a flight home.
And I bought yesterday the Spanish version of ‚The Great Westward Walk‘: El Gran Caminante. It is a book about the camino that has been recommended to me several times and I have got the English ebook already…. so I can try to improve my Spanish if I will be at home.
Today I wanted to have a look at the last part of the Camino Frances…. so I walked in the morning on the Camino Frances backwards to the airport of Santiago de Compostela. There are really many pilgrims on this part of the camino in the morning…. I think it is okay…. but I am pleased with my decision to walk the Camino de Invierno.
Yesterday I walked to Cap Finisterre and met there V. at the 0.000 km stone.
Together with some pilgrims and many tourists we watched the sunset….
Today I had breakfast at the beach and afterwards I walked a little bit around and took the bus back to Santiago.
Yesterday pilgrims and I ate together. The end of our camino is close…. with questions like ‚have you learned something on your camino?‘ or ‚when and from where do you fly home?‘.
Today I walked about 28km from Logoso to Fisterra. Here are many pilgrims because it is an end to a camino. I saw the sea….
Today in the evening I want to meet Vince and maybe other pilgrims at cap finisterre.
Yesterday we had a nice communal dinner. We got extra wine for free and had fun until 22.30.
Today I went from Piaxe to Logoso about 28 km.
Galicia in the fog in the morning…
A nice river…
Today I walked about 29 km from Santiago to Piaxe.
I woke up at 6 o’clock.
I liked the place in front of the cathdral in the morning. And my backpack has now a ’normal‘ shell from the pilgrim’s office additionally to my small one. I fixed the new shell exactly here in front of the cathedral.
Santiago and the cathedral in the morning….
I walked normally today…. but I felt my feet more than normal because I walked yesterday in Santiago ‚too much‘ only with the sandals and without poles.
A nice view from a bridge near Negreira….
Today I had something like a rest day. I said good-bye to Vince and got my Compostela.
In the afternoon I met SYates. She has done many Caminos and worked several times as a hospitalera.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/2018-open-house-forum-meet-up-in-santiago.48513/
At 19.30 I was in the pilgrim’s mess.
In the night there was a fiesta in Bandeiro. This is good… so I did not wake up many pilgrims as I carried my prepared backpack and my other bag outside at about 4 o’clock…. because it was loud anyway.
I wanted to go to Santiago today to meet Vince…. he starts his Camino to Finisterre tomorrow.
I walked about 34km to Santiago de Compostela…. first under the stars. The way was marked well…. about 10km in front of Santiago I lost it… I think someone painted an arrow into his village ( to his bar or something like that ) but not the way back to the main Camino. So I followed my open street map and my gpx data of the camino. In the forest my path got smaller and smaller… and then the way was not there any more. But the street was only 50m away… so going on. Now I stood about 5m above the street… almost vertical without bushes to hold.. even if it does not look like on this image….
So about 100m in the forest and then climbing down with the help of bushes…
Here I could see the cathedral very small for the first time….
The way in Santiago was not difficult with my smartphone….
The photos of the other pilgrims of me were not better…
In the afternoon I met Vince from Hungary in the albergue. We ate together and talked the whole evening.
Everything else like e. g. Compostela or pigrim’s mess should be tomorrow.
Yesterday there was a German couple in the hostel as well. They are on holidays in Galicia and the woman did a Camino about 20 years ago.
Today I thought I could try a larger distance…. after more than one month on my camino I am well trained and maybe fitter in walking than anytime before now or later in my life. And the way after Rodeiro is good…. not many ups and downs…. and it is not so hot today… and there are several albergues where I can quit if there is a problem. So I set the alarm clock to 4 o’clock (there was noone else in my room).
I started in the night without the moon and with my smartphone-lamp. Sometimes I covered the lamp and just watched the stars.
The dawn….
In Lalin I still felt good and went on….
I visited this church in Taboada and got a stamp for my credencial ( the pilgrim’s passport).
In Silleda I still felt good and went on… a little bit later I thought… hmmm… is this really good… but then I saw Bandeiro in the distance.
After the last difficult kilometers I was there…. and I walked about 44km.
But now it is really enough with new personal records…
Today I walked about 26km from Chantada to Rodeiro…. and a little bit further to the top of the Monte Faro.
After Chantada it was a long way up the Monte Faro. Almost at the top the camino turns… but only a few hundred meters from the top I can try this as well, can not I? It was cold and windy. The view was not the best….
Then again on the camino…. I heard a noise in the fog. That have to be wind generators… and then I saw them….
Later I arrived in Rodeiro. I wanted to book my flight home and saw that some online offers only work with credit cards. So I booked a flight from Barcelona to Munich on Tuesday, the 28th of August (with paypal). And I can see the scenery of Northern Spain again… because I will go by bus to Barcelona.