So I haven’t posted last two days as I was enjoying just living in Santiago, grabbing the odd coffee, beer, tortilla, and sampling some of the delicacies of Galicia.
I still believe I made the right decision for me in getting the train from Pontevedra and have no regrets not walking the final three days. I didn’t get to stay in Santiago long enough after my first Camino and I regretted that a bit. Now I have fulfilled this desire and really loved the place.
The buzz along the narrow streets, groups singing and playing traditional music, pipers belting out tunes all day. Hard not to enjoy.
On Friday I met up with a group of ladies from Emyvale and had a good few drink with them in an ‘Irish bar’. I was simply sitting waiting for dinner when I heard this broad accent that sounded very much like a Tyrone accent. When I ordered more food they heard my accent and turned around to talk to me. We had some good gossip and were about to leave when the staff told us to sit down as there was ‘drink’ coming.
So we waited and then the lights were turned off. This spanish man started growling out some kind of pagan-like chant and stirring a liquid in a flaming bowl.
We all got a cup each of this warm liquid. Some of the girls couldn’t drink it so I ended up with three! Hard to describe the potion. Kinda like whiskey but more liquer. Anyways I threw them down me and thought nothing of it.
Well I remember going to the Irish bar for a few drinks with the Emyvale girls, but when I left the door at closing time I do not remember a single thing and woke up fully clothed lying in my bed with two half eaten bars of snickers melting under my shirt 🙈🙈
Stephen arrived just before 12pm yesterday and I made my way to the cathedral square to meet him. On the way I seen Santiago true blues warming up for the twelfth!
Stephen arrived looking tired after starting his 25km walk at 5:30am. Like everyone who finishes a camino, emotion are running high and you have to just take a wee moment and take it all in.
We met the Emyvale girls for coffee before getting his certificate and then took a wee walk around town and got something to eat.
We checked in at the hotel and had a snooze/rest for an hour or two then went up town to watch the champions league final.
As I had to leave early this morning to get my flight to Sevilla, Stephen lay on and then went into town and met the New Hampshire girls again who had just finished.
It was great to see them meet up again and I was a little disappointed I couldn’t be there too but hey ho thats the way life goes! We’ll keep in contact thats for sure.
El Camino de Santiago 