Cruz de Ferro

[Gailsie]

I can't believe that it is three years to the day that I walked from El Ganso to Acebo. As soon as I glimpsed the iron cross, I began to cry and cried all the time until I could no longer see it behind me. It was such an emotional time since I was leaving behind a stone for my sister Kate who had died far too young from breast cancer two years earlier. If she and her husband Peter had known about the Camino I am sure that they would have walked it, so I felt like I was walking it for her.

Looking forward to being on the Frances again in two years time when I celebrate my 65th birthday, probably somewhere along the Camino Aragonese before hitting the Frances

 

[DavidCanadian]

When I think of all the stones brought to the cross and left there the emotions associated with that spot are overwhelming but I cannot help but wonder if all the stones that were left there remain there. Does the pile not become dangerous or unmanagable? Are the stones we brought from Canada in 2007 still sit somewhere under the ones that were placed after ours? Just wondering as I think of a return after Covid.