Day #22 Burres to Amenal. About 18 km

This is our last night as pilgrims walking to Santiago de Compostella.  Tomorrow we arrive there after a 16.5 km walk.  At this point we find that we can walk along at a pretty good pace for quite a distance without feeling pain or exhaustion.  It helps that the countryside in Galicia is so beautiful, the hills are gentle, and the temperature is very comfortable.  Since we will be getting there a day early, I'm hoping that we can take a bus out to Finisterre to see the ocean and the place that ancient pilgrims thought was the end of the world.

We left our lovely little Albergue at about 8:30 am after a really great night's sleep and the usual tostada and cafe con leche.  We walked for a couple of hours until we stopped at a cafe where we found our German gentlemen again having beer.  ( It's a mystery to me how people can drink beer in the morning and then continue walking for hours).  We had coffe and split a sandwich and walked on to Pedrouzo ( another short stop for ice cream).  The weather began to look ominous, and we didn't have reservations anywhere.  Our plan had been to walk to Amenal, but we found out the only lodging there, a hotel, cost €55, and Marty, the frugal one of us, objected to spending that much.  But as we walked, and as we felt a few raindrops and heard some distant thunder, and the legs began to ache, she was more agreeable to the idea.

So we arrived, found the hotel, checked in, showered and had a great dinner.  I bought us a bottle of good wine to celebrate being in the final stage of our journey.  I had scallops broiled and served on scallop shells,  one of which I've saved.  Tomorrow we plan to leave very early --  maybe we will get there in time for the noon mass for peregrinos in the cathedral.  16 km in 5 hours - maybe.

The first photo is of our Albergue last night.