As Artes Santiago de Compostela

The other two tours in Madeira and Lanzzarrotte we planned well in advance, but the trip to Santiago de Compostela was a last minute decision based on the recommendation of the two couples who we had the pleasure of dining with on the cruise. I'm glad we decided to go. It was quite a long drive, but well worth the effort. We walked around the oldest part of the town where the ...

... 8220;perros y gatos&#8221;, a full flight, seats<br>that crunched up against one&#8217;s knees, waves of claustrophobia coming and going<br>AND a nice bumpy flight on the climb up. <br>By the time we got to Barcelona, all was clear and the weather was about<br>10 degrees warmer!<br><br>The highlight yesterday, though, had to be 1) mass at the cathedral and 2) a tour of the<br>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!<br><br>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.

... theirvery itchy, its all good Not much time left we are are well and happy,but are looking forward to going home. We will arrive in Santiago in two days,at this point there is a little more industry than we have seen ,fewer farms,the town we are in is larger than we have seen foe a while. We are all strong and eager to move on each day. more later <br><br><br><br>e <br><br><br><br><br>

... Doglas chain-smokes and drinks several Red Bull and whiskey's, clearly looking peeved about the situation. About an hour later, he tries to bring us to nightclub, also in his mafia circle, but we decline. He leaves, we spend about 10 minutes more at our VIP place, and then decide to start looking for somewhere else.<br><br>It is about 3am at this time, aka right when clubs should start to open, and it is a Saturday night. However, the streets are COMPLETELY ...

... for dinner Spanish time, so we planned on just getting drinks. However, the place we sat at ended up giving us a plate with lots of pieces of boob cheese and 2 large empanadas, and another plate with 2 slices of cake, plus free drinks, so we ended up staying there for a while. Around 10:30, we met up with the other 3 girls and walked around for a while, looking for somewhere to have a bottle of wine and talk for a while. However, this turned out to be a much more complicated ...

Salut tout le monde, Alors que tout le monde me croyait quelque part... entre Santiago et Finnistere entre lundi le 24-11-08 et le dimanche le 30-11-08, voici ce qui, en realite, se passait vraiment. D'abord, il y a quelques petits changements a apporter aux journees des journees de samedi le 22 et de dimanche le 23. Ce seront les 2 prochains jours de blogue...

... in a 13th century monastery and were quickly drawn into the history of the Galicians. If you like history as much as we do, you too would have been mezmerized by the historic descriptions of the sea, the countryside, professions, music, dress, habitat and architecture, arts and crafts, society, memories and traditions of the Galician people. There are great economic, social and ideological changes in Galicia and this museum ...

The next stop on my revised journey was to Santiago de Compostela, the capital of Galicia, in the middle of b.f. nowhere, at least as best as I could tell by the long routes I had to use to get in and out. Apparently, it is also Spain's holiest city, with a Romanesque cathedral which is supposed to sit atop the tomb of Saint James the Greater. The tomb was allegedly lost, then refound in the ninth century. Because of this, some 200,000 ...