Well we are done. We walked over 120km which is about 75 miles. We had a couple problems (Waguih's feet) and tweaking of my medication but that was all. The walk from Lavacolla was a wet one and quite foggy too. My feet were wet almost immediately because my boots were not quite dry. We made it to the church a little late for pilgrims mass but made it to the 7:30pm mass where the botafumera flew. The service was very nice. I took part in part of the pilgrim rituals but not all of them . I wont bore you with the details.
Santiago de Compostela has a tremendous work of architecture called the City of Culture. This is a modern marvel that is not finished and Spain has discontinued money to finish it because Spain is broke which you should already know if you follow the news. The library is open but has about 10% of the books it was designed to handle. The entire campus was deserted. I felt ashamed for Spain.
We are heading for Porto, Portugal via bus. Porto sounds like fun.
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