Tuesday 5th We have booked our flights and coming home tomorrow so this is our last blog. Its been great fun keeping an online diary and we will enjoy looking at all the pictures on a pc which we have not done yet. We thought about how we could summarise the whole trip and decided its probably impossible to do as so much has happened. We have quite literally had the time of our lives but as they say all good things have to come to an end and we are now looking...

We had a late night enjoying the lively night life in Santiago and had a lie in and late breakfast. Our batteries are definately running on empty today as our bodies have given up. We went to the pilgrim mass today which we missed yesterday and it was a really good experience. The atmosphere was so friendly and everyone was singing at full volume. The cathedral is not as spectacular inside as others we have seen but still impressive. But the scale of it on the o...

1pm Saturday June 2nd we finally crossed the finish line at the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela! It has taken us 36 days to complete the 500 miles which includes two days off & we have walked every single step. The hardest task was having to carry our 8kg backpacks all way across this most fantastic country. But we have done it and it feels amazing. The picture is not the most flattering as it rained for most of the day but that was how we arrived at t...

After the stresses of being stuck in a lift for an hour last night the vino collapso worked its miracle and we had a good nights sleep. It would have been better if some hound did not start howling in the early hours but in Spain it's happens a lot. We had a relatively easy walk today as it was 22km on the flat and the sun did not come out until noon. We managed to avoid the threat of a couple of thunder storms and arrived at the hotel O Pino at 1sh. The place i...

Mrs Bean who has been very quiet for weeks has finally struck again. She pushed the lift button 2 or 3 times as it did not respond immediately to her command . The result was the lift doors shut and the lift moved a few feet then but then did not budge. 1 hour later the emergency lift engineer crow barred the door and released us between floors. We climbed out unscathed. I suppose there has got to be a first time for everything but after the bed bugs last night ...