#34-Walking the Camino-May 25, 2016

32nd day of walking

de A Peroza a Salceda

Book - 4.6 miles

Map My Walk - 5.15 miles, 2 1/2 hours

Fitbit-13,115 steps, 5.59 miles

Today I am thankful that we have been able to walk the Camino. It is really a unique experience. At lunch we met a couple from France who are walking their 7th Camino- all trips have started in different places; all have ended in Santiago. They love it- the people, the walk, the scenery, the food and Spain is a relatively inexpensive place to vacation. 

Good Deed- actually we didn't walk enough to find a good deed to do. 

Some interesting signs. 

Don't throw rocks at a car's tires

And this one is confusing. Is it stop? Or caution? Or a red yield sign?  I think the black letters are an after market addition by a helicopter mom who wants people to stop at the school bus stop

30 K to Santiago

Dolores' cafe where we got two glasses of fresh squeezed orange juice

Finally!!! The end, I think, of the silage saga.  Just like the Odyssesaga we all read in high school

 There, on the concrete platform is the bale (or clump) of yummy silage 

And the cows finally get to slurp up their breakfast 

Some more plants. Pine Echium

Eucalyptus trees making a forest which will blue eventually be harvested for pulp. 

We are at a pension tonight. It our most expensive place so far - €47

Note- even if the bathroom looks neat and is in an expensive (for the Camino) pension, if the attachment for holding the shower head on to the wall is missing and if the shower door won't latch shut, then it's just an ordinary shower for the Camino. 

Lunch. Really big sandwiches. We saved half for breakfast tomorrow  

This section of the Camino looks just like the Willamette Valley. 

Dinner

.......the legend says that James' body was transported to Spain on a stone ship without oars or sails "carried by angels and the wind". The ship landed at Iria Favia (present-day Padron), and James' disciple met the ship there and transferred his body to be buried in a nearby hill. 

The body of Saint James appears to have been forgotten for the next seven and a half centuries until the year 813 when a Christian hermit named Pelayo saw a light shining down on Mount Librefin that led him to the grave of St. James, along with the remains of two of his disciples, Atanasio and Teodoro. The Bishop authenticated these relics, and King Alfonso II built a chapel to the Saint, which drew a modest number of pilgrims. The first church at the site was built in 829, with further improvements in 899. The current cathedral was begun in the year 1075 and completed in the 1120's .

More tomorrow.....