Honeymoon on the way "by social conscience and faith"
The road is a backless well of stories.The most recent that of the newly married Mónica Romero and Francisco Ojeda, a couple who married June 12 in Altea (Alicante), where they live.And for different reasons, including the Catholic faith, they opted for the Jacobean route to make their novice trip: "The road called us, we are believers".They arrived in Santiago on the 22nd after five stages on foot from Monforte de Lemos, in the middle of the winter route, an experience that lived for the first time.Just as it happened to so many other couples, they had planned to marry a year ago, but the sanitary pandemic made the celebration impossible.The Covid and its consequences were decisive to choose.“We are risky, simple and humble people, so we think about sharing the way.By social awareness we also wanted to spend in our own country, where the hospitality sector has suffered so much, ”according to the newly married.
Although the experience has been very satisfactory for both, not everything came out as planned.An example is the opposite direction that they undertook for mistakes.It was when leaving Silleda where they were disoriented despite the explanations received.“We had just eaten, it rained a lot and we gather.The good thing was that a local police patrol happened to us and noticed that we were lost, in the opposite direction about five km.So, kindly, he returned us to the people, ”says the pilgrims between laughs and thanks, after telling an anecdote that has earned them to extract a moral."The road is like life, difficult, exciting.If we laugh, we laugh together;And if we cry, too.In addition, it fits our simple things.As we say in the south, sometimes you need to receive a guantá without hands to realize that the human being is very limited.But vulnerability makes us better people, ”they underline.
After overcoming the difficulties of the route, the long -awaited day of the last stage arrived at the end.They rose at half past five with the aim of arriving in Compostela in time and fulfilling the tradition of attending a Mass dedicated to walkers.Finally, they could not attend the pilgrim's Mass due to capacity restrictions."Entry into the Obradoiro is great.We are sorry because it ends and, at the same time, joy to get there ”, tell about the end of your trip.After arriving to the Galician capital and taking the photographs of rigor, they waited for half an hour in the tail to collect their compostela, ate empanada, broth and cake of Santiago in the interwer, the restaurant located in the alley of the same name.Before leaving the city of the apostle, they visited the photographic exhibition of the Winter Camino, promoted by USC Alumni, the Association of Olders and Friends of the University of Santiago in the casino.
“I am very happy to have done it, and I would not change it even though my knee hurts a lot and he is full of blisters.It is very exciting and we believe that everyone should do it, ”she warns.In fact, the couple is already thinking about repeating with friends.They only met a pilgrim, Ana, from San Sebastián, with which they walked and one day they ate together.The couple, who claims to be "delighted" with the experience, values this alternative route to French which is one hundred percent Galician and very rural.“We really liked landscapes and livestock, we come from sun and beach land.One day I was amazed looking at how they milked a vaquita.The lady of exploitation invited us to pass, told us her day to day and taught us a newborn calf.We were surprised so much hospitality and kindness.The people here seem an example, ”as he maintains.And they will surely repeat.
