17-June-2016 Brea to Santiago 26km

We woke, had breakfast downstairs with Dermont, Matt, Sarah and Hanna, after this we asked the landlord to call a taxi for us, she tried multiple numbers but no cars were available, we had to walk the 5 kms  back to O Pedrouzo again. We said our goodbyes and headed off at 8.30am.
We walked for about 9.00kms before we stopped for a coffee at Amenal. 
We photo bombed Chris and Julie's photo just before the airport and walked with them to San Paio where we stopped for lunch with good company.
After lunch we continued on, we were dragging our heels a bit as we didn't want the walk to finish. We slowed to talk to a Perth lady about the Bibbulmun track in Western Australia which helped her up a hill. Then we spoke to two Columbian ladies, mother and daughter we assume,  The daughter was hobbling. We stopped for photos at a big monument, we stopped for ice cream. Once we hit the outskirts of Santiago, it was a very long haul to the end. We finally made it to the square behind the Cathedral about 3.00pm, we didn't see anyone we knew at first but Stefan came out of the crowd to welcome us in which was nice.
We thought it would be a while before Chris and Julie, Dermont and the kids and Sarah and Fletcher would arrive so we went to the hotel to drop the backpacks. The hotel was another 1.5km from the square, we just checked in, dropped the packs toileted, then headed straight back to the square.
We waited in the square for a long while, got coffee, stuck our heads into the museum, went to the cathedral and hugged Saint James took lots of photos, we kept going back to the square but nobody arrived, then we went to check the line for the compostela, it wasn't so bad so we joined the line. Lynette went to the toilet, while on the way she passed a tourist office where she proceeded to buy our train tickets back to Madrid. We recieved our compostelas shortly after, a lot of our 'to do' boxes were checked.
We returned to the square and snuck up on Chris and Julie as they had just arrived. They told us the others were staying out of town tonight and would be in tomorrow. We organised to meet up after mass the following day and parted ways.
We stopped off for a menu del dia on the way home in the touristy part of the old town. We ended up talking to another old Aussie and a Japanese guy, they were and odd couple, as the Japanese guy could understand us but not him as he had a strong country Victorian accent.
It was late when we arrived home with mixed feelings about finishing, at least we can sleep in tomorrow and walk without packs.