Day 16 - the end
This was the day we reached our destination. I still do miss being on the road
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we passed the marker signifying 100km left. The next day was Portomarin to Palas de Rei, I don’t remember anything particularly special other than it just being long. The following day was the longest though, 30k from Palas de Rei to Arzua, which is also just a blur now in my mind aside from one final, brutal hill that came around the start of the last mile. After Arzua was our last town O Pedruzo, and I think walking down from the town to the hostel at the end of that day was when my right leg started to act up. The last day of walking finished in Santiago de Compostela. I don’t think it was a particularly long day, but the end was rough because my leg was stiff again and I had to rush a little because they do a service at the big cathedral at 12 and I didn’t want to miss it for the day. Then I was in Santiago for a couple weeks for some language classes at their university. I took two extra trips during this time, a day trip down to Villagarcia de Arousa to go to the beach there, and a weekend trip down to Porto in Portugal. When I was in Portugal they had a festival going on which was really cool to see, and Porto is just a really great city in general too. At the end of June we left Santiago to head back to Madrid for a couple more days to wrap things up. That’s where the study abroad ended, but I took my own trip over to Andorra alone. There’s no direct train there, so I took the train from Madrid to the city of Lleida where I then caught a bus up to Andorra la Vella
(though it was not that easy, my train arrived ~10 minutes behind schedule so I was stranded until I could buy another bus ticket). The drive up into the Pyrenees was beautiful though. I spent the night in Escaldes and in the morning I walked up into the Madriu Valley which was really steep. I came down early out of fear for missing my bus somehow (my flight was the next morning) but I got to walk around the capital for a bit which was nice. From there it was retracing my way back to Madrid where I had booked a hotel right outside Atocha station. I mention this because I had thought I could then also hop on the metro the next morning to take that to the airport, but the line that was there was shut down so I had to lug all my things over a mile across the big park to get to the right metro stop. I don’t know if this all is what you were looking for, I don’t know if this is too specific or not enough, but if you have more questions I’d love to answer them. I’m honestly not trying to plug or anything either but this project might be useful too for more stories and showing the locations https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/887191826/
that’s awesome! you should’ve taken a small detour to Switzerland though :) no but seriously that is so cool, thanks for sharing
