Another day of firsts. Yesterday parts
of Europe including Spain were on red alert for extreme weather
conditions. During the night cyclonic winds and rain hit us, so we put
off our departure from Monte Gozo until 09:00
and then stepped out into bucketing rain and wind gusts that blew us of
the footpath. Strangely there were few people on the road and the
couple of motorists who passed us must have thought us crazy and hooted
their horns. The 5km walk took longer then expected and we arrived at
the pilgrims office looking like drowned rats. An hour later we attended
the pilgrims mass in the cathedral where it was read out that Jennifer
from Germany, Kristina and Lilli from Slovenia, and myself from
Australia were the only pilgrims whom arrived on Christmas Eve. I'm
booked in for the special hotel Parador dinner tonight, then at 22:30 the ladies and I are having drinks and exchanging gifts and at midnight the Christmas mass in the cathedral.
To all my family and good friends who have followed my daily wanderings
and tribulations, a Very Happy and Blessed Christmas, you are in my
thoughts at this special time. Signing off from Santiago cathedral in
northern wintery Spain, pilgrim Wal :-)
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