{"id":100,"date":"2012-06-09T20:08:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T20:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/2012\/06\/09\/end-of-the-camino\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T12:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:50:27","slug":"end-of-the-camino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/2012\/06\/09\/end-of-the-camino\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the camino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 20px; width: 300px;\"><a href=\"\/blog_camino_2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/MobileBlog\/20120609\/210809957.jpg\" target=\"_blank \" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"\/blog_camino_2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/MobileBlog\/20120609\/210809957.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300px\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The takeaway ordered for us by the hospitalero last night arrived earlier than expected and was surprisingly good &#8211; a complete dinner kit in a crate. The head count in the albergue increased by 2 noisy cyclists who arrived at 9:30 just as the hospitalero was about to lock up.<br \/>\nA relatively early start in the morning (walking by 06:15) in a light drizzle; this persisted on and off  for about half the day causing lots of indecision about waterproof clothing.<br \/>\nWith an estimated 32k to do our approach to the day was a little more focused than yesterday&#8217;s bar crawl (oops, didn&#8217;t mention that before). The end really did seem to be in sight when, after only 8 km, we paused at a high point for what we believe was our first glimpse of the Torre de Hercules. Not that close though as there were another 6 hours of gentle (?!) hills, gentle rain, chicken farms, eucalyptus woods etc before we crept into A Coruna past a short stretch of industrial estate and then along the pleasantly flat riverside path before a final assault up and down an urban hill to arrive at the Iglesia de Santiagoy. (Photo at front of church, matamoros above, Tony below!).Final sello obtained from a slow but helpful priest &#8211; yee ha! We&#8217; ve done it!<br \/>\n868 miles and 53 days walking.<\/p>\n<table><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The takeaway ordered for us by the hospitalero last night arrived earlier than expected and was surprisingly good &#8211; a complete dinner kit in a crate. The head count in the albergue increased by 2 noisy cyclists who arrived at 9:30 just as the hospitalero was about to lock up. A relatively early start in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/2012\/06\/09\/end-of-the-camino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;End of the camino&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2012\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}