Congreso Hotel Santiago de Compostela

We travelled through thick fog over and through the mountains on typically heroic Spanish roads. They cut through mountains and build viaducts over the valleys. We drove through and around weary looking Pilgrims to our campsite which was on the Camino de Santiago. It was closed. After some interesting encounters with some locals, one old man practically ran away when asked for directions, we found this camp site.

The centre ...

... Brazilian mafia-affiliated club, where he notices our hesitance and tries to convince us to just come in and have a drink at his table. At that exact moment, the other girls call, and I sprint up to the plaza and drag them down to the club, where Maureen and the guy are still standing. The presence of 6 other girls makes us feel much more safe, and now the guy has no choice but to take all of us in (In Spain, it is expected that the person who does the ...

... and were able to walk all over the roof and take pictures. After the roof, they took us on a tour of the market of Santiago, where we saw a truly revolting aisle of seafood, mostly still alive, a vegetable aisle, and a cheese aisle. The cheese in Galicia is a special local cheese called "tetilla"-- boob cheese. It comes in the shape of, yes, boobs. The story goes that a bishop commissioned a famous Italian sculptor to make a statue of the Virgin Maria for the entrance to the ...

Dit was echt zo waan-zin-nig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eypg1pBY 3nk, het WOW moment begint bij 0:40...

This was really a-ma-zing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eypg1pBY 3nk, the WOW moment starts at 0:40...

Top 5 du royaume du pelerin: Santiago de Compostelle 1- Il y a tellement d monde a la messe du pelerin de midit (en plein milieu de la semaine) qu on doit s assoir par terre a la Cathedrale de Santiago de compostelle. 2- Il peut y avoir plus de 2 heures d attente pour obtenir un diplome de pelerin a l arrivee. Les gens attendent debout avec ...

... offered a 10 percent ´Pilgrim´s discount´ as we checked into a hotel and before Virg could translate the mistake to me we´d already accepted. Besides, it wasn´t entirely a fraud, we may not have a limp but we´d travelled to Santiago on ´a broadly Christian mission´, well, to see the cathedral; we´d probably travelled further than the other pilgrims; and more to the point we had very little money left and didn´t ...

... joy of seeing Cris Kodiak's beautiful midwestern face in the A Courna train station!!! So he's traveling Europe and his travel buddy Adam just left him to start a big boy job in the US. Plans were, visit Spain Cities: Barcelona, Madrid, you know the usual. Then we came in contact.... Wanna visit Santiago? I got nothin' but time baby! Yea! So theres nothing wrong skipping one day of classes to meet a good friend and hang out on the beach ...

... their rightful owners hop on and claim them. The first part of the trip is fairly suburban, with a lot of major roads, but we see a surprising number of peregrinos walking alongside the road. It seems to be market day everywhere, and some of the markets look pretty good. Luzo, where we lose the front seats, is a major city, but we still see peregrinos here. Further along, the country becomes wilder, with mountains, and deep valleys. We keep an eye on the time, so ...

... remet up with some Australians who introduced me to an English guy who's been traveling for a year. We pubbed all afternoon and then we went on rides at the fair. We continued pubbing all evening, watched fireworks, and listened to the big band Latin jazz band in the park.

The Aussies disappeared, and Rob and I met some locals who took us to discoteca after discoteca (but they, with their Spanish lisps, called them "puffs," meaning "pubs"). We finally went home at eight in the ...