Camino_de_Santiago

We are getting closer to Santiago every day. It’s rare we get pictures together but we walked today with Deb and she took this. We left early this morning and were treated once again to a beautiful sunrise over the city of Astorga. My new headlamp works great!👍 Some of the sculptures, cathedral and light effects we saw as we left town this morning. Just outside of Astorga we came across this lovely little chapel, Ermita de Ecco homo, we went in to warm up and get a stamp. a pilgrim invited us into the restaurant. More sculptures we saw today. This is a new marker we have not seen before. I think it indicates we are in Galicia! Pictures taken just outside our destination of Rabanal. Today we started climbing as tomorrow we will climb the highest peak on the Camino. Currently we are about halfway up the mountain to Cruz de Ferro! Cute gato 🐱😻 I got a wax stamp today, so lovely! We went to Vespers tonight at the Iglisia de la Asunción. There were 10 brothers from the Monastery of Monte...

We have arrived in Astorga which means we have finished our final full day on the meseta, and we could see the landscape change before us, we had a few more hills and could see the beautiful mountains ahead of us! side note: Oh last we played Escoba, the Spanish card game I bought, not sure who won but we had fun! Escoba in the bar! We left very early this morning, 5:30 am to be exact as we knew we had a long day, just outside of town where we needed to turn on our headlamps, mine died😥 It was so dark and scary, I tried to use my phone but it was difficult as I wanted to use my poles for security. I ended up just following Amy and her light and it worked out well. As soon as we got to Astorga I bought a new headlight. 🥰 Stopped at a wonderful cafe in this town and had one of the best cups of coffee and a Spanish tortilla, by the time we left the sun was coming up and relieved my anxiety about walking in the dark. ( by the way the sun comes up here now around 8:15 am) We are officiall...