Day 29: Muxia to Madrid

Date	Jun 20th ( Tuesday )
Total This Camino:	277 miles
Total 2023 Caminos:	277 miles
Total All Caminos:	2000 miles
Lodging:	$ 50 @ Hostal Pilar
Total Lodging:	$ 1280
Planes:	$ 1350
Total Planes:	$ 1350
Buses / Trains / Taxis:	$ 130 Muxia to Santiago
Total Buses / Trains / Taxis:	$ 0 / 163 / 409 = 572
Food:	$ 25
Total Food:	$ 680

Meaningful Moment

Tapa hopping with Deb.

Random Thought of the Day

Another Camino de Santiago done and in the books.

2000 miles of hiking in Europe since 2014.

On the Road / Notable memories

5:00 a.m. Wake up

5:45 a m Taxi to Santiago de Compostela

7:00 a.m. Arrive train station Santiago

7:45 a.m. Depart Santiago for Madrid

11:15 a.m. Arrive Madrid

11:30 a.m. Subway line one from Chamartín

12:00 p.m. Arrive Puerto del Sol

12:15 p.m. Arrive Hostel El Pilar

	Fabada with morcilla, salchicha and tocino
	Calle de Arenal
	San Gines Chocotería for churros con chocolate y cafe con leche
	Plazuela de San Gines
	Tapa hopping at the Mercado de San Miguel. Deb much more so than me.

Day 28: Frixe to Muxia

Date	Jun 19th ( Monday )
Today's Distance:	8 ( to Muxia ) + 1 ( Sanctuario ) miles /  12 km
Frixe to Muxia Stats	Route Video
Total This Camino:	277 miles
Total 2023 Caminos:	277 miles
Total All Caminos:	2000 miles
Lodging:	$ 35 @ Apartamentos Costa da Morte
Total Lodging:	$ 1230
Planes:	$ 1350
Total Planes:	$ 1350
Buses / Trains / Taxis:	$
Total Buses / Trains / Taxis:	$ 0 / 163 / 279 = 442
Food:	$ 30
Total Food:	$ 655

Meaningful Moment

The reason for our 4-hour delay this morning.

There's a windmill in there

Muxia lighthouse

Random Thought of the Day

Delayed 3 hours due to rain. Gradual ascent and steep descent. Lots of rainforest during first half of hike. Ended with beautiful beach scenery along the ocean. 

On the Road / Notable memories

Got up at 8:00 a.m. for breakfast. 

Sitting in the Casa Rural because we woke up to a pretty serious rain. 

Weather forecast says the rains should break in the next couple of hours, and check out is at noon, so I certainly can sit here for a while.

It's now 10:40 a.m., and been watching rain all morning . Weather radar indicates clearing around 11:30 a.m.

It's boring waiting in the lodging during the morning for the rain to stop.

Reflection on mood: When I start the day in good weather, and it turns bad, I just press on because I'm already committed to the days hike.

But it's a different feeling when I'm sitting over breakfast watching the occasional heavy downpour but, still heavy rain, and thinking do I even want to start the day.

	Rain warriors
	There is a wind tower in that cloud.
	Not quite but almost the end of our 280 milk hike through northeast and northwest Spain.
	Atlantic before entering Muxia
	Church of the Virgen Lady of Ships
	Church of the Virgen Lady of Ships
	The Monument to the Prestige Tanker. This tanker accident spilled 70,000 gallons of oil into the Atlantic Ocean in 2002.
	Sunset over the Atlantic in Muxia

Day 27: Finisterre to Frixe

Date	Jun 18th ( Sunday )
Today's Distance:	10 miles / 16 km
Finisterre to Frixe Stats	Route Video
Total This Camino:	268 miles
Total 2023 Caminos:	268 miles
Total All Caminos:	1991 miles
Lodging:	$30  @ Casa Ceferino
Total Lodging:	$ 1195
Planes:	$ 1350
Total Planes:	$ 1350
Buses / Trains / Taxis:	$
Total Buses / Trains / Taxis:	$ 0 / 163 / 279 = 442
Food:	$ 50
Total Food:	$ 625

Meaningful Moment

Deb and  I ordered dinner where we are staying. 

Not for the only reason, but an important reason, is that it's the only place in the village. But we are hoping for a really good meal.

It is a private home, turned into a Casa Rural which is a house in the country made available to essentially city slickers for the weekend.

We chose it because the place is ideally located for a stopping place.

Random Thought of the Day

Seems like a lot of people went to Muxia first, while we went to Finisterra first. We have been passing lots of pilgrims headed in the opposite direction to Finisterre while Deb and I are walking to Muxia 

After 27 days now, by the time I make it to the room, I pretty much want to call it a day. Might be discovering my upper limits lol

On the Road / Notable memories

Having coffee in Santo Estuvo de Lires because we got caught in another rainstorm that does not show up on the radar. lol

Cows - lots of cows; up close and personal

	Cat town
	Walking along the Atlantic coast this morning
	Twice we came along herds of cattle. The path was narrow do the cattle passed work feet, horns included.
	Deb is making a way for the bull and cows.
	Beautiful day
	Rural country house, out lodging, Casa Ceferino
	Another incoming storm over the Casa Rural
	Igrexa de Santa Leocadia de Frixe. Romanesque church of the 12th century and reformed in the 18th. This area was repopulated in the Middle Ages with people from Toledo who brought devotion to Santa Leocadia, a rare invocation in Galicia.

Day 26: Corcubión to Finisterre

Date	Jun 17th ( Saturday )
Today's Distance:	7 (Finisterre)+ 5 (Lighthouse) miles / 18  km
Corcubión to Finisterre Stats	Route Video
Total This Camino:	258 miles
Total 2023 Caminos:	258 miles
Total All Caminos:	1981 miles
Lodging:	$ 35 @ Casa Felise
Total Lodging:	$ 1165
Planes:	$ 1350
Total Planes:	$ 1350
Buses / Trains / Taxis:	$
Total Buses / Trains / Taxis:	$ 0 / 163 / 279 = 442
Food:	$ 45
Total Food:	$ 575

Meaningful Moment

Sunset Cruise around Finisterra and to the Atlantic Ocean to see the lighthouse. 

Skies were cloudy so we didn't see much of a sunset, and in addition, it started to lightly rain.

However, it was nice to be relaxing on the water and to see some of the places we had hiked.

Being next to the lighthouse is impressive, but seeing it from the ocean is spectacular.

Random Thought of the Day

Tried lunch at Os Tres Golpes, but it turned out to be a very neighborhood place and kind of expensive .

So we took a pass and found a more cafeteria style placed that seemed to be comfortable catering with peregrinos.

Then for a pre-cruise meal, we stopped in at one of the places on the waterfront, but it was geared for the tourists. Found the food good, but not great. It was something you would expect for a tourist district.

Tomorrow we begin our second to last day of hiking. We have somewhere between 10 to 11 mi.

The day after we have about 8 - 9 miles. We will arrive in Muxia, which is a picturesque, much less touristy, town on Galicia's Costa do Morte - Coast of death.

It is so named because of the rocks and shoals which have been responsible for many a sailors' death in a shipwreck.

On the Road / Notable memories

For a stretch before entering Finisterra, we were routed through a forest. These little side trips are always beautiful. Sometimes the road can't be quicker to the destination, but it takes a bit of a toll on being relaxed.

The final stretch was along the beach.

	First place where we actually dipped our feet into the Atlantic Ocean
	It was nice that the Camino was actually off-road for a significant portion. Made it much more beautiful.
	Hiking through one of the many towns along today's path
	First view of Finisterra and the lighthouse
	Finisterra
	Having coffee at the lighthouse
	This is the marker for kilometer zero. There is no more farther to walk, because we are at the end of the world.
	Finisterra port district; having something to eat before the sunset cruise
	Fishing fleet
	Finisterra lighthouse from our cruise