Santiago

So here we are in Finisterre as we British who are used to hearing the shipping forecast know it, or Fistera as the Galician call it. The real end of the Camino but we haven't burnt our boots here. It was a10 mile walk to get to the town and a couple of kms along the beach. Typical British weather with just about everything including a massive downpour . Thea final 2 kms to reach the lighthouse where Roger and I threw our message in a bottle into the sea and re...

This is the team when we had our first glimpse of the sea. And there are some tears behind the smiles here.. Blisters have struck and even blisters on blisters but heroically we got through the 14 miles that took us through the coast. We haven't reached Finisterre yet, but that is tommorw's story. Alas in hast but more to follow

First of all apologies to those.who see to think we managed to walk to Italy. There must be two Negreiras and one of them is't in Spain. But as the pic show.we are on the way to the coast. Today was 21 miles and even when Roger and I were used to Camino walking those are hard days...never mind for those who have just joined and ah hem might not have been the fine tuned training required. But we made it. We are making use of the taxi service that takes your rucksa...

This is the team after their first day walking. Taking the training very seriously. Just eaten their first pilgrim meal and tried a few of the local wines. But well done as we have done 14 miles on another hot day and managed to find where we were staying. Far less people on the road to Finnisterre and still some lovely countryside but less cows. We have a couple of plants specialists with us now and they can identify all the local windflowers and the birds ...