Day Thirty-five - Arzua to Arca - 21km

Our penultimate day! How did that happen?

We left town at 8.15 this morning - with a million school children! That put a quick end to a quiet start to our day!

Apparently, when job seeking, having the Camino on your CV makes a big difference, so I guess these children's school was helping them have a head start. It was just a shame we hadn't started walking 10 minutes earlier as we had to negotiate getting past them as they wandered along!

There seemed to be so many more people around today. We have got into the habit of stopping for a drink at each cafe - today the cafes were crowded and we only stopped once. This had the bonus of us walking very fast and completing today's hike in less than 5 hours.

We have been very good at being mindful and having positive thoughts (well most of the time!) but today we kept having to remind ourselves as we got stuck behind so many slow walkers! Everyone has to do the Camino in their own way - even the people that seem to be doing it by bus!!!!!!

Tomorrow we are going to break a rule - we are going to leave at 5.30 in the morning. We have just over 20km to walk into Santiago. We want to try and finish our Camino as quietly as we started it and so we hope to avoid the school children! Also we would love to arrive at the Cathedral in time for the 12.00 pilgrims mass which is meant to be an amazing way to finish the walk. Wish us luck!

The view from our window after an enormous thunder storm last night.

At least a million school children were walking with us this morning!

Looking back over Arzua.

Another memorial to someone who didn't finish the Camino.

After the rain last night the eucalyptus woods smelt amazing!

More wood.

What a sad story!

After arriving at our hotel we walked into the local town.