Ac A Coru'A La Coruña

... have been gathering for centuries to visit the tomb of St James. The Cathedral itself was magnificent, and the surrounding buildings where also very impressive. Shopping in the narrow flag stoned streets was a delight. We stayed at were given refreshments in a former hospital dating from around 1513 which is a listed building and is now a first class hotel. It was all very grand.

... 8220;perros y gatos”, a full flight, seats
that crunched up against one’s knees, waves of claustrophobia coming and going
AND a nice bumpy flight on the climb up.
By the time we got to Barcelona, all was clear and the weather was about
10 degrees warmer!

The highlight yesterday, though, had to be 1) mass at the cathedral and 2) a tour of the
cathedral palace and a walk on the roof of the cathedral ...

... the city which contains all the old buildings and churches is pedestrianised and huddles round the grand cathedral. The Cathedral is vast and very ornate. The guide books say that is best seen in the rain so that all the lichens and mosses are highlighted. The weather duly obliged!

The car has decided to have a sick day and has gone to the Ford dealer to recuperate! We collect it tonight and move on to Portugal in the morning.

A slow morning saw us arrive in A caruna around 2:30p for a quick tour. A beautiful city where we had an excellent lunch (more kids running through the streets while we devoured raciones and wine. Yum!!) A 6ish departure for our long drive to Llanes in Astoria. We finally ...

... does the paying, and we couldn't have been more clear that we were expecting friends). We enter this club and find that he has reserved a VIP table in the corner with a velvet rope and all. A waiter comes and asks for our orders, and once we realize that this guy is paying for all our drinks, we order and sit there talking and drinking. I get one of the other girls to ask him his name, which turns out to be Doglas (DOE-glass). We sit there talking amongst ourselves ...

... sunrise yoga. We later planned to go into a caruna for a day trip but thought better of it when we learned of the "end of summer" fiesta being held at the campground from 10-3am. And when I say, held at the campground I mean, held directly in front of our camper ...

Our day went very much according to plan. Nice!! A morning enjoying Sao Joao de P. with pastries and coffee and strolling the tiny streets. An on time depature had us in Santiago de Compostela by 3:30 after enjoying the amazing country side. A quick tour of the amazing ...

... As a side note, despite the interesting shape, tetilla cheese tastes like your standard, semi-soft, mild cow's milk cheese.

After the roof tour, we were given free time for lunch, and then met up again with the group. About half the program headed back to Madrid with Nuria and Eva, but my friends and I had dediced to stay the weekend, so we got our stuff off the bus and headed to the hostel. When we got there, we found out that, though we thought we had booked 2 triple ...

... I didn't think that we were standing on top of some ancient monster skull, but the tower was pretty and had a nice view, so we enjoyed it. We then got a brief walking tour through A Coruna and were set free for lunch. Since we still had our bolsas, Liz, Lauren, Kaitlin and I sat in the main plaza, the plaza of Maria Pita, and ate our lunches. Maria Pita is like the Joan of Arc of Galicia; apparently, several hundred years ago, A Coruna ...

... kveld og en voltaren til frokost har gjort underverker. - Achillesn hennes er vond, men etter litt rolig oppvarming om morgenen gaar det bra. Skoene mine er helt utslitt naa selv om jeg tar lengre steg...intet moenster igjen og slitt gjennom saalen noen steder - det gjor at jeg sliter litt med skinnleggene paa ene foten , men jeg tror jeg skal fikse det de siste 40 km. ******** De siste dagene etter passerimg 100km igjen har vaert annerledes. Mange flere ...