The End of the World

The same day I found my guitar Kelsea and took a bus to Finisterre. Finis means end much like finish and Terre means earth so the combination means the end of the earth. It is the farthest west you can go in Europe. Some consider Finisterre to be the unoffical end of the camino.

After we arrived at the lovely port city of Finisterre, Kelsea and I had dinner at a restaurant overlooking the port and its colorful fishing boats and old men repairing nets. We ordered brown crab and the waiter grabed a crab out of the tank and asked us if that one was ok. It was so much fun to watch the waiter grab the crab that I was about to eat.

After dinner Kelsea and I went back to our room. Thats right: our own room with a private bathroom! Not a dorm with fifty bunkbeds and fifteen snoring old men and five showers for everyone in the albergue. Oh the luxury!

Next we walked the last 3km to the light house at the End of the World and we couldn´t see a thing because a thick fog had rolled in off of the ocean. We could see about three feet in front of us.

There is a pilgrims´ tradition that when you get to Finisterre you burn an article of clothing. I burned my linen shorts that had two gapping holes in them. I had been wearing them all trip and they were in about the same condition since Burgos. Kelsea burned a pair of her socks. It was alot of fun. I love burning things.

The next day we headed to O Grove were we booked a room that overlooks the ocean. It is so great; however the one thing Kelsea wanted was to be by a beach...... O Grove is on the wrong side of the penensula and the beaches are about 15kms away. Tomorrow we are taking a taxi to the beach. Other than that the view from our room is fantastic and the food by the beach is wonderful. I had the best paella. All of the seafood was staring us in the face: shrimp and their beady black eyes and all.

Tonight we are going to watch the U.S.A soccer team dominate its way into the next round of the world cup. I can´t wait to see everyone and hopfully we will have pictures up on facebook soon!