Sobrado dos Monxes to Arzua, Spain

This morning started like any other morning except I am starting to notice many more pilgrims in the mornings. We waited quite awhile to place our coffee/toast order and for it to come. We have been pretty spoiled being on the Norte route where there isn’t a ton of people unlike the Frances route. Now that we have arrived in Arzua, the Frances has now joined the Norte to head into Santiago de Compostela and we are seeing many new faces. We are also seeing people from weeks ago that we lost step with at some point, but some seem to be doing outrageous kilometers per day to wrap it up. One guy I spoke of a couple weeks ago, Dizzy Man, who we met on top of a mountain, we hadn’t seen in what seems like weeks, we ran into again. He walked 50km in one day. That’s crazy. Obviously he got over his dizzy spell!! Others are logging 40km. It’s a lot. Santiago isn’t going anywhere, we will stick to our 20Km days for the next 2 days and arrive on Sunday, October 1. We will go to the “end of the world”, Finisterre, on the 2nd, hike to the lighthouse and watch the last sunset from that beautiful spot. A perfect ending to an amazing, yet challenging journey. We aren’t there yet though. 2 days to do. Today was about 22km and after all the previous nice, cool overcast days, the sun popped out and roasted us today. I just kept thinking that is fine, way better than rain! Nothing really noteworthy on our walk today, most photos come from the special visit to the cathedral in Sobrado. We met up with Meelike for coffee this morning and walked with her all day. She had stomach issues last night at the albergue so she didn’t sleep well and by the end of the day, she was looking pretty bad. We weren’t looking all that great either, but grateful for no stomach issues. The foot did better than it has in the last 3 days. Still have pain, but not the sharp pains that stop me in my tracks. Sort of strange, I expected the pain to continue and get worse the more I kept demanding of it. It is still inflamed and swelling, but I did pretty good, and kept pace with the girls, even a little faster at times, so that gave me hope. Looking forward to the next couple days, and at last, the grand entrance into Plaza Obradoiro.Read more