We never had late nights on the camino! Well maybe once, at O Cebreiro, and many wakeful nights, but not actually staying up. Last night, I stayed up till 2 am, as I felt compelled to complete the paper camino, and here it is. It will be flattened out in a day or so for further pics, to see what it looks like. The idea is that its spiral formation makes new links between days; themes and preoccupations begin to show up. The last 2 squares were especially hard to fill in. They illustrate the railway that took us on our way from Santiago, with gold leaf splodged all over the colours of the Spanish countryside as we experienced it; there's a marked absence of deep flamey colours in that cold spring! The last one, on the left, depicts the colours of the Lincolnshire countryside; this has a little wavey line of the pure gold too which we hope to find on our home ground; and my new scarf marching on, symbolizing friends who are fellow-pilgrims even if they were not physically with us on Spanish soil. Ultreia!
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