June 14thArca O Pino - Santiago de Compostela
Rainy Day, we left the albergue at 6:00 and was dark outside. In a corner of the street in Arca we meet Julian again with his flashlight. He stayed in Santa Irene and got up today at 4:00 am. We walked with him today for almost 10:00am when he stopped at a bar to have some coffee. It was raining still and kind of cold, long roads without anybody. Sometimes I felt maybe I was taking a wrong patch. So after a long time without anything but trees I arrived at Monte do Gozo and a tour bus was parked there. One lady from the bus was waiting in the corner of the street and clapping to everyone that was passing there and saying: "YOU MADE IT, CONGRATULATIONS". It was amazing to hear that, she was what I needed at the right moment. So good I felt that I decided to keep on going without stopping at Monte do Gozo, I only entered in the church, made a prayer and left. 30 more minutes we are crossing the bridge that takes us to the outside of Santiago. After many days and many things we arrived.
Cant explain with words the feeling of this moment.
The cathedral filled with people and some tents outside from the students protesting against the Spanish government. We enter in the church with backpack and rain coat, I wanted to have the same energy that I had walking with all that for the last 30+ days. After hugging Santiago and visited his bones we took a place close to the altar for the pilgrim celebration at 12:00. There we met again our Italian friend sitting in front of us, our lovely Brazilian friends Jeane and Bel, Julian from Madrid, sweet Brazilian Maria Luiza and many more.
No botafumeiro in this mass today : (
We left to have some food and shelter. We all decided to stay at Seminario Menor where later on Elza arrived too.
What an AMAZING day!
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