The Blog is Reactivated

We last posted to the blog three weeks ago. We wanted to continue to keep everyone current with respect to our Camino, but arranging for access to the internet and free time to coincide was very difficult. After walking for seven or eight hours and looking for a place to put our heads down for the night, and to locate an understanding taverner who would provide a few tankards of beer, there was neither daylight nor energy left over. Besides, a few days after our last entry, Encarnita encountered a major, major surprise on the Camino, a surprise that kept us both busy. But more about that later.

We did finish the Camino, arriving in Santiago on Saturday, June 6th, in time for the noon pilgrims mass. It was a moving moment, marked by the realization that eight weeks constant walking had come to an end. It was also an occasion when the world´s largest incense burner (botafumeiro) was in full swing, effacing the odours rising from the bodies of the many pilgrims in attendance.

Now that we are in the south, basking under a 37 degree sun, it is my intention to reactivate the blog, posting every few days entries drawn from our very vivid memories of the Camino. They will be posted in chronological sequence with pictures added when I have more sophisticated access to the internet. For those of you who continue to check in to the blog, you will follow our trip as we walked it to its destination, but with a short time delay.