Day 72: Lestedo to Santiago de Compostela
This is the last day of this VdlP/Sanabrés virtual Camino. Today, we have 13.6km to reach our goal on the Praza do Obradoiro.
@Raggy sums that last day nicely:
What's the hurry? Enjoy the countryside, which is still very pretty.
As
@C clearly headed to her destination,
@peregrina2000 had some
advice, and as a fellow Romanesque aficionado, I wouldn't miss the opportunity of seeing the Colegiata del Sar.
@VNwalking has a beautiful
photo of it.
@Raggy also
commented on
@C clearly 's last day and he has also suggestions (the guided tour of the Portico de Gloria, the museum of the Galician people) which will be useful on this, our second visit to SdC. I will take his recommendation for a beard trim:
And if you need a beard trim or shave, I recommend Barbanosa at 1 Rúa da República Arxentina.
When I started looking at the VdlP, explaining that we would like to consider short stages, this comment was made to me:
If you can't walk long distances, you may want to reconsider walking the VdeP.
Walking this virtual Camino has been a fantastic exercise. It showed that it is possible to walk from Seville to SdC without necessarily having to walk the long distances which are the reputation of this Camino. Here are some statistics:
- we walked 62 days, (I followed
@Sara_Dhooma 's videos, and she walked the same length in 38 days!)
- had 10 rest days in amazing places (Zafra, Mérida, Cáceres, Galisteo, Salamanca, Zamora, Puebla de Sanabria, and Ourense)
- we spent a total of 72 days on the VdlP/Sanabrés
- we took a taxi or had a lift a couple of times to shorten some of the stages, the most notorious one being day 3 from Castilblanco de los Arroyos to Almadén de la Plata, and another one when we walked from Fuenterroble de Salvatierra, where the Casa Rural VII Carreras came to pick us up after 22km. We're not purists...
- we only had a handful of days over 20km
- we averaged between 15km and 16km per day.
I would like to thank all the pilgrims who have contributed in one way or another to the immensely valuable information on this virtual Camino:
@peregrina2000 (without whom I would have never started!),
@Raggy (thank you for all your photos and the detailed descriptions!),
@C clearly (whose virtual footsteps we followed on the Sanabrés),
@OzAnnie ,
@Peregrinopaul (both fellow Australians),
@VNwalking (who has whet my appetite to discover other Caminos),
@hel&scott ,
@alansykes ,
@camino07 ,
@amancio ,
@Albertagirl ,
@KinkyOne , and others who chimed in occasionally.
So signing off on this virtual Camino, here's the photo of our arrival in SdC in 2018, after a very long walk...
Buen Camino!