Breaking Up

Today the first of us leaves Santiago - Compass and his wife head-off to France for WW1 battlefield tours. The rest of us leave tomorrow, Ram and his wife for a cruise in the Baltic, the Captain and his family for Germany and then a cruise from Barcelona to Istanbul. My wife and I are off to Morocco and Ireland.
I have asked each of the guys to send me an email of their initial thoughts of the Camino and I will post in the blog over the next week or so.
I will also update the blog with a few more shots from different cameras and by the time we all got home in 3 weeks or so, it will be nicely tied-up and complete, with the full story.
Many have told us during the last few weeks and personally I have experienced it from the past Caminos,  that the Camino does not start till you get home.....it will be interesting for certain.
Here is a photo of the Pilgrim's Mass yesterday, quite a moving ceremony, even with my basic Spanglish!
This is a photo of them firing-up "Old-Smokey", the thurifer got bigger and bigger over the years, as the number of smelly pilgrims increased....the driving-force behind the evolutionary size.
I have a movie of its journey in full swing and will see if I can get it into the blog...it is quite a sight from our prime standing location.