Today was a fast day and the terrain was pretty easy with only a few rolling hills. For one of the few times during the trip Jannette, Seth, and I were the first ones to the town along with our fellow traveler Britton. Here is what we saw...
This is in Arzua. This the second art piece like this we have seen.
It was another crazy day on the Camino with floods of people heading for Santiago. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that we sped up and raced ahead of the crowds.
We saw this lady out tending her garden. Gardens are everywhere with a lot of the restaurants along the way using fresh produce in their meals.
Jannette and Seth deep in conversation.
Along this stretch we came on this little "altar" with different "pilgrim" items left with inscriptions. In the rock were carved multiple crosses with the larger one in the center. It is probably some devotional spot.
Here we discovered the strangest sight: thousands of beer bottles attached to walls, stumps, fences, etc. The "beer garden" in the back has everyone who drinks a beer write their name on the bottom of the bottle and place it in a spot around the bar.
You see a lot of little farms fenced in with large, flat rocks placed upright.
This fuchsia bush blew my mind! It was about six feet high and about five feet across. There was another one beside it of about the same size. Usually we see these as small plants in hanging baskets but here they live as perennials in the open.
And, the blossoms were huge. Probably the size of my thumb.
We have arrived in Pedrouzo. This is the view from our hotel room.
The best part of the day was celebrating Gaylamarie Rosenberg's birthday. We arranged for a nice meal and bought four cakes. She had no idea that we had purchased the cakes! We had made arrangements with the restaurant owner to keep them for us until we had finished our meal. On cue, the owner and his people brought out the cakes and over the loud speaker a happy birthday song played. It was fabulous!
Tomorrow is our last day of hiking; we enter Santiago de Compostela. I must confess that it is hard to believe that we are so close after such a long and arduous (yet amazing and beautiful) experience hiking across Spain. We have seen and experienced so much; met amazing people from all over the world; and have learned so much about ourselves.
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