Post the walk
What to do when you’ve finished the Camino? People are reluctant to leave the square in front of the Cathedral; leaving will mean your Camino is over.
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For us, we were able to both leave and stay because our hotel was literally beside the Cathedral and makes up one imposing wall of the square. So our post-Camino treat was a suite in the Parador complete with view of the cloister and then a locally flavored gin and tonic to toast being in Santiago de Compestela.
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The next day, yesterday, we explored the Cathedral. The highlight was a tour that got us up on to the roof and into the towers. We tried to visit the inside of the a cathedral in the afternoon but were defeated by the dense crowds (we came back at 7am this morning and had a nice silent stroll around).
Then after breakfast we walked down to the train station and caught the train back to Madrid. It’s a bit like surfacing from a dream, step-by-step moving back into the real world.
Our view
Congratulations. Fantastic achievement. We continued on, albeit on a bus, to Fenestere which was where pilgrims of old went and burnt their clothes. It’s a pretty day trip to a fishing village.