Today is the last official day of fully walking on the Camino Frances. Tomorrow we will be arriving in the city that has been at the edges of our minds for nearly 30 days. We all took a late start today. Doing nearly 45 kilometers of total walking in one day will make you want to do that.

Boente was our first stop, for breakfast of course. According to the guide book there was a priest here who would give blessings to pilgrims. No priest, but we settled for the stamp since you have to get two per day now in order to get your certificate at the end.

Several small towns came and went as we walked today. The sun was high in the sky, and I could already feel the sunburn setting in. We were taking our time today, and Arzúa was our next stop after a couple hours of walking.

There wasn't much activity on the trail today, mostly just heads-down walking. We arrived in Arca / O Pedrouzo around 5pm. Such a slow day, but then again it was still more than 30 kilometers of walking and we had a late start. The rain was threatening to arrive at any moment as we tried to reconnect with Eileen and Mauro via free WiFi at a local bar.

We tried four different places before finding beds in a hotel/Albergue called Porta de Santiago. Not too bad of a place considering it wasn't that expensive. Eileen and Mauro met up with us there and got some beds as well.

Apparently there is a concert going on this weekend in Santiago, so based on the advice by Eileen we started looking into making a reservation anywhere we could in order to ensure that we had a place to stay. But all of the Hostels and Albergues were filling up quickly. We'll just have to wing it.

I can't believe that this month long journey is coming to an end tomorrow.