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A day in Lugos
-Late start at Cathedral of St James in Lugos at 12pm. Able to walk behind requary and up to see ceremony being performed. Incredible.
-Museo Catedral: artefacts, some restored, obvious new and old cut. Graves take up 2/3 of the foot-path space around inner court area. Huge tapestries telling stories with thousands and throusands of …
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Kort nieuws.
We zijn er. We hebben onze compostelas gekregen. Daar moesten we wel bijna 3000km voor fietsen.
Het grotere nieuws is dat toen ik buiten bij het touristenbureau stond te wachten Wendy aan kwam lopen. Ze heeft ons mooi verrast.
Later meer.
Joop
Vigo? Ve vent, an now Vigo.
... for much of the way a great disappointment, being either wide open super highway cut through forest with almost no view at all, large industrial units, freezing stations for the fishing industry, or splatter architecture of low cost housing out up in a hurry in the last 30 years. Not terribly exciting.
Where we did get a view of the estuary itself, it was covered in the oyster platforms which is one of their main industries here.
So that was Moana, Cangas and Bueu ... ...
Starting to Stretch out the Kilometres - 30k
... to get dinner was not appealing...Benino produced a menu, told us to order and that our food would be brought to us in a taxi. I ordered Ensalada de Pasta, Bistec con Patatas, Tarta de Santiago and a glass of wine...it arrived promptly at 8.30pm as promised and we feasted...Craig had Ensalada Rusa (Russian salad), hake with chips and we shared a jug of 'vino tinto'...lush! Bread accompanied our feast and we decided to leave the Santiago Cake for breakfast in the morning.
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Along the Way with Paul from Iowa - 20k
... Paula Rey, lead singer of Luar na Lubre. Knowing that he was going to the town, and being a big swim fan, he had entered a swim race which he had thoroughly enjoyed...Speedos and all. He'd slept under a tree with a bottle of Galician white wine (I like him already) and he had decided to go for a walk before stumbling across a waymark for the Camino Ingles. He stated that the Camino had found him and I really hope that one day he will get ...