Our Walk Along the Camino Primitivo

Arriving into Santiago de Compostela Concluding the Camino Primitivo  Without paying too much attention to the weather forecast we had planned to walk the final 38 km of the Camino Primitivo into Santiago de Compostela today.  In the tradition of our first walk along the Camino Frances , we rose early and set off in the darkness around 6:00 AM.  We knew it was Galician Literature Day, the 10th holiday that has occurred since we arrived in Spain at the beginning of April prior to venturing along the Camino Madrid , Camino San Salvador and onto the Primitivo, but we had assumed that at least one of the bars or cafés along the Camino Francés would be open to feed the masses of hungry pilgrims on their way to Santiago.  With a sinking feeling, we walked down the dark and empty streets of Arzua at 5am and quickly realized that everything was shuttered and silent.      The final day on the Camino begins At the edge of town, we passed a small Galician chu...