Oh Happy Day!!

Today I tested the leg with my first point to point walk on the Way without the safety net of a town and infrastructure if it didn’t go well. My fit bit registered almost 15 miles and I am settled in at the albergue I hoped to reach and just finished a celebratory beer!

I can’t even describe the joy of being back on the Camino walking  toward Santiago.

I am happy I made the decision to bus to Lugo and rejoin the Camino Primativo, my originally planned way to Santiago. It is so quiet with so many fewer people. The landscape is rural; the routes are small country lanes and the original foot paths taken by early pilgrims. It is quiet, peaceful and beautiful.

Over the distance since Lugo there was just one bar. Otherwise just hamlets, small churches and rural scenes.

This albergue is one of only two options for places to stay for quite a distance. I emailed Lali when I was unable to communicate with the hospitaller here on the phone in an effort to reserve a bed. Lali called him and emailed me back and said I should ask for Niko on arrival ( felt a little “godfather-esque”). But, when I arrived and told him I was Katherine, you would have thought I was his long lost daughter!  What a greeting I received! Thanks yet again to Lali!

i know as I get closer to Santiago, especially at Aruza where so many of the routes converge, it will get busy again but over the next few days I will go slow and drink this in. This is the way I want to feel when I think back on my Camino!