It has been an exciting week at El Campito. Construction and remodeling of the playground has started and will be done in the next couple of weeks. I want to thank all our supporters for your donations. Soon I will send more pictures!
The botafumeiro! (Smoke-belcher; largest censer for spreading incense smoke in the world. It weighs 175 lb, it’s swung by 8 men back and forth from a pulley system reaching speeds of 80kph.)
In action!
Arriving at Sunrise into Santiago. There is still about an hour walk into the historical district, cathedral and the pilgrim’s office to receive Compostela certificate… We are very close!!
Felipe receiving his Compostela Certificate! Very emotional! We were all excited to finish but sad at the same time. Felipe said “I am not sure what to do now!”
Kids have become experts in stopping bread delivery vans and asking if they have bread to sell. Many times it is still warm!
Arriving into Santiago on Sunday we even found a delivery van and of course bought bread!
In many cases we pay 1 or 2 euros for the bread! This delivery guy was so sweet he didn’t charge us anything!
Here we actually got in to the bread making plant and bought a traditional empanada Gallega just baked!
Felipe taking care of his feet at the end of the day.
Felipe and his blisters! Such a trouper!
We meet Carmen and Lucia from Palma de Mallorca on a school trip doing the last 100 km to Santiago – they became our walking companions for two days.
Saying goodbye in Melide to Lucia aka “miss entusiasmo”. We probably won’t see her again in El Camino they are walking longer days to arrive on Friday. We arrive on Sunday.
In Sarria, we visited the boarding school where our dear friend Andrés Zamora studied.
Andrés Zamora’s boarding school is located in the old medieval pilgrim hospital!
Ya “casito” On Monday we reached the 100 km mark to reach Santiago! It was a very hot and arduous day before reaching a very friendly and helpful albergue.
We stayed at the albergue Casa Banderas. The owner is Gordon Bell a delightful man from South Africa!
Our walk today took us through several little farm towns.
120 Km to Santiago (arrival in one week- hard to imagine)
Yesterday and today two tough days of going uphill. (Reached our last high points of our journey) Felipe fell and we were scared that it was bad but it wasn’t (arnica and a wrap worked like a miracle)
We found this very interesting grasshopper that travelled on Felipe’s stick for a while. We have seen very interesting animals!
El Camino de los Jauregui 