Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Arzua to Pedrouzo, July 4

Before going to bed, we looked out our window to see this beautiful full moon.

Next morning we set off on our next stage.  This final part of the Camino Frances is crowded with pilgrims, some of whom are only walking a few stages to Santiago.   Making the pilgrimage by bike is increasingly popular.  Looks like fun to me.

Each day we've been running into the same fellow pilgrims with whom we shared the albergue in San Roman a few nights back.  The camino is a social place, so whenever we meet we check in on each others' progress.  These young Spanish men were quite enthusiastic with their team's win at the European soccer championship that night.  (You can't see it in this picture, because they were sitting down for a snack break, but one has been walking since then wrapped in a Spanish flag.)

Toward the end of the day we ran into Jacko, a Belgian man we met in the albergue just outside of Oviedo a couple of weeks ago.  He'd walked all the way from his home to Santiago, and is now walking back along the Camino Frances.  He'd like to walk all the way  back, but is getting some pressure from home to stop just over the Pyrenees in France (only about 780 km from here).  Jacko has quite a blog going at jackocompostela.wordpress.com.
 
Today's stage was a short one, only 18 km, and we were in Pedrouzo by lunchtime.  Because this part of the Camino Frances is so crowded, we'd reserved a room at a small pension in town.  The small parish church has this beautiful scallop shell (one of the symbols of Saint James) on the wall behind the altar. 
 
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