I love the fact that this square is named for the Obradoiro, the workshop where the stone masons laboured to create the grandiose façade. A reminder that a beautiful cathedral, and the roads that lead to it, demand day after day after day of toil.

Perhaps your travails were meant to be, Debra. An unexpected final step along the way, after the end seemed to have been reached.

I am so glad that the situation was resolved. Thank you for sharing the story, for both its emotional and its practical value.

It brings to mind these lines from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet:

You are the way and the wayfarers.

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.

Aye, and he falls for those ahead of him, who, though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.