32 km (837) 7h

I am generally not a huge fan of the sea, I find vacations by the sea rather boring. After such a long stretch of hiking to arrive at the sea, but then something else

I jumped right into the cool water at the first opportunity. Very refreshing, but also considerably colder than expected

I had the whole afternoon to watch the waves breaking on the rocks. Somehow this coming and going of the violence of the sea has something magical. Almost imperceptibly, the waves creep towards the coast before rearing up just before the rocks, breaking and finally retreating

A constant coming and going, gradually reshaping the rock. Rivers have an intoxicating attraction for me for the same reason. The sea has become a bit of a symbol for me, not only for the Camino, but especially for life itself. To imagine reaching a great goal often seems unattainable. But if you keep taking small steps, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, you suddenly reach the previously impossible and thus form the stone of experience. Each wave by itself, seems to do nothing, but all together bring you within 3 weeks over 600 km to the end of the world and certainly further.

I had just thought about it again that people really believed in the past that the end of the world was in western Spain. Purely from the temporal sequence that we are in today, and thus collectively possess the most knowledge than any generation before (the same was true for the people before us), brings me to the question of where actually our “end of the world” is. For me it is the “observable universe” – at least physically. Since light has not had time to travel farther, and therefore we cannot see farther than our space light receivers can catch the glow of stars.

However, we can imagine that the universe is larger, since we are sure we are not in the exact center of the universe, that there is more to the universe than what we can “see”, but nothing more

It’s nice to know that there is still so much to discover on the outside, while we don’t even understand in an all-encompassing way what’s going on inside ourselves. Walking the Camino, with myself and all the loved ones in my heart, brings me at least a few steps closer to understanding my inner self.