Salceda to Santiago

I arrived in Santiago yesterday and it feels so familiar.  I rejoined with many pilgrims I'd walked with over the last two weeks.  It was great to see familiar faces and compare notes and share the excitement of completing the Camino Primitivo.   Santiago was less crowded than I expected but the Sunday pilgrim mass was standing room only.  The pilgrim office has moved to a new location and more amenable to the queue that formed to receive our compostela.  I'll spend a few days here, then head back to Nerja where I've rented an apartment through years end.  Walking the Camino has always led to some new discoveries and I'll have time to reflect on those and post them in an epilogue, so stay tuned. 

Pilgrims monument just outside Santisgo

New Camino amigos toasting completion

The cathedral still under renovation

Incense hanging in the air after mass

My favorite tapas bar is going strong