A lovely night spent in the 4* hotel but felt strange being away from our camino family. Menu del diar/perigrino menu last night was spaghetti carbonara, spicy pork with egg and chips. Followed by proper baked cheese cake. We were accompanied by Brian and Jake and had a barrel of laughs as the municipal albergue sounded awful.
Lugo town was shut due it being Sunday, typical! Walked through the town tho and had a look at the cathedral, but it felt like winter!
Whilst walking around town I noticed witches outside shops. A ‘de ya vu’ moment was had. Prior to me coming on camino I had a dream a witch stood outside the albergue to warn me of bed bugs.
When I googled why witches were everywhere. Apparently it a galician celebration of a saint. But felt weird being right across from the cathedral.
Today was only meant to be a 20k walk as the clock ticks down to santiago. 20k was done by 12:30 so we decided to walk another 7k onto Ferreria. 4 blisters today which is my own fault as I should have tighten my laces. But today the camino felt different, we are now joined by ‘Disney gerinos’ as we all them. Our camino pals must have left earlier and we were walking with new pilgrims who are basically wimps and only walk the last 100k.
I could feel the anger building in me all day. How unfair is it? I’ve walked 321km at the end of this and get the same certificate as someone who walked 100k. They dont even carry their bags and roll very large suitcases into the albergues. One even turned to our friend Jessica and said “this is easy!”. I thought to my self ‘ you cheeky mare, I’ve worked hard to get to this point and you say this is easy!!!’.
To calm the anger we plugged the headphones in. Bounced along then to Elton john, ABBA, queen, lady ga ga, jesy j, but dont think my singing impressed!
73k to the finish, 3 nights left in albergues, 6 blisters and still a smile on my face!
Camino de Santiago 