Managed to get the kilometers done in three days with just 20 k the last two in a row. Despite the relatively short distance, we arrived in Santiago around 4 in the afternoon on Saturday since no one wanted it to be over. We were trying to fully enjoy the company of our new family. As I learned in my first hike, you get to form really close relationships in less than half the time it normally takes. Our group stopped 4 times for wine which I only enjoyed during the first stop. I did not wish to arrive drunk especially since I had only managed 2 hours of sleep Friday night after 3 or 4 glasses of wine. As we arrived with a large number of Spanish and Portuguese speakers our group was singing a Spanish pilgrim song as we entered the square in front of the Cathedral. Once there, we took a number of pictures to commemorate the arrival as one does and then sorted out our Compostelle passports to get the paper confirming we completed the trail and giving us the Latin version of our names.
Saturday night the town was so busy we had to wait until 10:00 to get a dinner table big enough for our group. So, I ended up staying awake from 12:00 midnight to 1:00 that day and only slept to 8:30.
Last night, we surprised ourselves and despite having a reasonable dinner hour, we went to 3 separate places to meet fellow friends again and our last stop was a karaoke bar which turned out to be a lot of fun. But when I arrived back at the Air B&B at 2:00, my ears were ringing and I wasn't sober yet. Luckily, I've been smart enough to stay within my mostly untested limits. I've been drunk before but I never got to the point where it was followed by a hangover. Today, I booked a couple nights at a hostel to try to get a normal sleep schedule started again. The rest of our group came back at 6:00 am and 2 of those people were up again at 9 to start their hike to Finisterre.
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