Day 7 - Pedrouzo to Santiago !!! 16.2km


Easy walk punctuated by stops at bars. On our first day we had 
walked only 16 km and found it quite fatiguing. Having had a week’s practice this was a piece of cake. After a quarter of an hour through eucalyptus forest we joined the Camino Francés and were staggered - the number of people streaming past! To which we added our number of course.

A bar crawl, as I said with, at times, quite heavy showers - but finished off in beautiful sunshine by the time we got into the historical town center where we are being put up by Andrea and Serge in a 4* hotel almost next to the cathedral, the San Francisco Hotel Monumento. While everybody installed themselves Andrea and I went to the Peregrinos’ Office to get our Compostella, the pilgrims certificate certifying that you walked a minimum of 100 km on one of the St James’ pilgrim routes and the certificate of the distance you actually walked. Having walked as a group you have one person registering all the members of the group - thus you avoid the long lines of people who want to get their certificates. 

Walkabout with Andrea and Serge - quick visit to the cathedral, and back to the hotel and sleep. Evening meal relatively early - 8 pm. Excellent shared seafood in a restaurant which is part of the Asbestos Market - very noisy as always (several adolescent males!) 
and back “home” via an ice cream bar.

And so to bed and sleep...
....as late as everybody wants - breakfast served until 11 am!
Nicola and Franzisca are going back to Frankfurt tomorrow afternoon...












Comments

  1. Britta HorzSeptember 3, 2022 at 12:14 AM

    Bravo! Geschafft!!! Ihr tüchtigen Wanderer.
    Als wir vor vielen, vielen Jahren in Santiago angekommen waren - nur die letzte Etappe zu Fuß - haben wir, bevor wir die Kathedrale betraten, eine ganze Liste mit unseren Sorgen und Wünschen für die verschiedensten Personen auf einen kleinen Zettel geschrieben und - wundergläubig, wie wir waren - beim Rundgang in der Kathedrale heimlich nahe dem Altar zwischen die Steine geklemmt.

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  2. Britta HorzSeptember 3, 2022 at 1:33 PM

    Das möchtet Ihr wohl wissen und dann nachträglich unsere damalige Psycho-. Kinder- und sonstige Probleme analysieren. Sicher ist der Zettel noch unverrottet in irgendeiner Ritze.

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