We started our last day on the Camino in the rain, which intensified as the day went on. We reached Santiago about 1 PM, standing in the plaza mayor in front of the cathedral, trying to grasp that we had finally made it. We had wanted to see the cathedral from the hill above Santiago, […]

We walked through beautiful countryside yesterday, made up of small working farms with cattle, sheep, and chickens mixed with forested areas with little streams winding through. There was a break in the weather, until mid-afternoon, when it began to drizzle. At lunch we ate octopus, called pulpo, a specialty of this part of Galicia. It […]

The hike from Sarria started in cold weather with heavy frost on the ground.  We took an alternative route that took us up into the mountains through little mountain villages. It was like a trip through The Hobbit, everything green, golden, picturesque.  We came into Portomarin ahead of a major storm system that had been […]