Palas de Rei to Arzua, two days to Santiago

We arrived in Palas de Rei last night, very nice walk, and only a smidgen of rain. The stay over in Portomarin was nice altough not much of a chance to do alot because of sore feet and rain. I thought i was surely going over the bridge the wind was so strong, i practically did a sprint all the way across. The coolest thing about Portomarin was it is a new town, by spanish standards, the old one long ago flooded. You can still see the old roman bridge below the new one and remains that lie beneath the water. They actually took the church of san nicolas and rebuilt it in the new town, each stone numbered for placement. We enjoyed a great dinner with Hugh, Tina, Thomas, John, the crew from the UK we met a few days back and Steph from S Africa. Ironically, Tomas is a cancer researcher from Germany so we talked alot about cancer, fundraising, and advancements being made with the disease.This morning, after one of the coldest nights we have spent here,(I think they turn the heat off just after you go to bed) too cold to even sleep, we set out for Arzua but without packs. Occasionally, if we are going very far or just plain tired, well ok, that is everyday, we will send our packs on to the next town. Can you imagine trying to do that in the states?? It would cause total shutdown. Anyway, we are having a wonderful walk and are even finding ourselves walking slower, i guess, getting into santiago is so close, we only have two more days and we are done. We have hurried along for over 4 weeks now and now that is it almost here we don´t want it to end. We have sdtopped in a little cafe to update the blog, get a bite to eat and it is hard to believe we only have 30 miles before we reach Santiago. We expect to be in Santiago on Thursday unless of course something detours us which is always possible. We will check in in a day or two, tell everyone to check us out, we are almost done!!!!