After days of rain, LOTS of rain, water seems to be flowing everywhere, cool CLEAR water. There is something about deep clear water that always makes me stop to ponder, how nice it would be to jump in. The trails do not seem to be damaged, but then again, many of them have been here for hundreds of years. There IS evidence of repair from erosion in places though.

Yesterday was a lovely day, slightly cloudy but no rain. I guess the ground water is catching its way along all of the tiny creeks to the bigger waterways to the ocean now.

Every hike we have done we have had rain, I feel that any country that is experiencing a drought should invite Ken and I there to do a lengthy hike…

I always find it interesting how water is diverted, collected and then directed with rock.

As rock hounds, I must say we have walked for ??200 KM so far over lots of rocks and we have seen nothing of interest to us. it seems as thought it is just granite everywhere. There ARE interesting things they seem to do with granite here, they seem to use it where we might use treated lumber. They seem to make fences and stakes for grapevines with granite… certainly will last longer.

I am guessing, more granite here, less trees? There seems to be lovely forests, but I guess logging is not as much of a thing if you have granite? Buildings made with concrete, or rocks, or bricks. There was a time change between Portugal and Northern Spain, even though we were just going north, so the sun is now rising at 8:40 and we are starting out at about 8.

So today we do that final 16 KM into Santiago de Compestela. Although we did a different Camino 6 years ago, we did not walk into Santiago, as we had become quite ill 3 days prior to our arrival, so we had to take a bus into the city. So, fingers crossed today we hope to walk into the city.

so talk soon

Janet and Ken