“ 880 km later…
We´ve finished!!!!
We´ve been to the end of the world, and it was cold and rainy the whole time. BUT, it was an amazing feeling to have made it so far, something like 880kms in 36 days, and we bought champagne to celebrate (well, a 2€ cava doesn´t really count as champagne…). So, we spent one day in Santiago at a pilgrim´s mass where the priests swing a massive 54kg incense burner over the heads of the devout (really impressive, but too touristy to be in a church, in our opinion), enjoying ourselves and taking a break, then we walked the four days (90km more) to Finisterre where we sat in the rain on the rocks of the furthest edge of the Old World, contemplating our lives and what we had done to get to where we were. We´re currently back in Burgos, one of our favorite cities, getting ready to make a journey back to Saint Jean Pied-de-Port to pick up our stuff and then we´re journeying on to Tarbes for a 10-day helpx with a French-English couple before heading to Germany for 5 days to see Karl, Andrew´s good friend who´s at university there for a year. We´ll try to post some photos when we get some more time, but just wanted to let you know that we´ve finished el Camino and we´re very happy/at peace with the world and we´re on our way to the next adventure. See you all in the coming weeks, we hope!
Love and smiles to all of you!!!
We´ve been to the end of the world, and it was cold and rainy the whole time. BUT, it was an amazing feeling to have made it so far, something like 880kms in 36 days, and we bought champagne to celebrate (well, a 2€ cava doesn´t really count as champagne…). So, we spent one day in Santiago at a pilgrim´s mass where the priests swing a massive 54kg incense burner over the heads of the devout (really impressive, but too touristy to be in a church, in our opinion), enjoying ourselves and taking a break, then we walked the four days (90km more) to Finisterre where we sat in the rain on the rocks of the furthest edge of the Old World, contemplating our lives and what we had done to get to where we were. We´re currently back in Burgos, one of our favorite cities, getting ready to make a journey back to Saint Jean Pied-de-Port to pick up our stuff and then we´re journeying on to Tarbes for a 10-day helpx with a French-English couple before heading to Germany for 5 days to see Karl, Andrew´s good friend who´s at university there for a year. We´ll try to post some photos when we get some more time, but just wanted to let you know that we´ve finished el Camino and we´re very happy/at peace with the world and we´re on our way to the next adventure. See you all in the coming weeks, we hope!
Love and smiles to all of you!!!
