How strange and lovely it is to walk along the beach unencumbered!!
Back at the hotel after accepting another Compostela for this walk, we're napping and honoring our bodies for their hard work: 375 miles !!
And lest I forget, I must appreciate Craig for being my surplus water bearer. Every day, I fill my bladder pack to capacity and promptly run out. CC hardly drinks his and generously stops to give me sips as we walk along. He is powered by Coke Zero!
Dinner at the hotel at 8:30. I'm hoping for soup and a salad!
Tomorrow brings a trip to the light house, some beach exploring and more Celebrations of Rest.
Taking off la mochilla.
Note the windmills in the background Of the second photo below. This is a typical Galician grain storage structure.
And do note the snail on the Camino sign. We couldn't let that go!
The Finesterre Camino has a different feel from the Camino de Santiago. It's much less traveled so there's not that sense of cameraderie so prevalent on the Santiago walk. There are long stretches without towns or rest stops. It doesn't have that aura of reverence or spirituality if you will. Yet it is exquisite and speaks silently and the notion of walking to the sea brings a sense of completion, especially since we weren't on a traditional Catholic pilgrimage that would bring enhanced significance to the arrival in Santiago to attend the mass.
Anyway, we're feeling joyful and glad of it.
This sopa de verduras is so delicious. A cream vegetable soup ( no dairy ) with onions, carrots, beans, Brussels sprouts, pumpkin. The other typical Gallician soup, caldo de Gallega is equally fantastic. It uses a special green. Photo follows. Desserts speak for themselves. 
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