We are resting in our hotel room 2 km past the town of Padron, nearly 2 weeks since our arrival in Porto on 1st October. It is good to be here, having traveled about 225 km so far, with 22 remaining until our destination, Santiago. My memory of arriving in Rome 5 years ago was exhilaration on the final morning, followed by a huge anticlimax. What do you do when your focus has been to walk to the next place each day, and you have no necessity to pick up your pack and head off again?
It has been good to share the journey with our friends Peter and Lynne, a privilege that they invited us to join them on their celebration of Lynne's 60th birthday. It has also been good to be back on the pilgrim route, and of all days so far, today we had much more interaction with other pilgrims - 2 Spanish sisters and their close friend, 2 American guys, an Aussie girl and her UK sister and a great group of 8 women, also doing the camino for a 60th birthday.
It will be interesting to discover whether this camino has a significant impact on me as did our Italian pilgrimage. In some ways we both feel that we are only just getting into the rhythm now. Whether or not, it has been a wonderful trip, meeting lovely people, enjoying visiting both Portugal and Spain, creating super memories and wearing out our walking shoes.
And we still have the climb to Santiago da Compostella before us.
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