Hostal Residencia Alameda 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 ...

... the lobby. Dinner last night was quite exceptional. Paul had the duck confit and I had the pork chop....both were delicious.

So we left Ribadeo yesterday and took the coastal road. It was like I imagine Highway 1 down the California coast used to be in the 50s. We stopped at Cathedral Beach and I'm attaching the photos. Santiago is a big-ish city with lots of traffic and its accompanying exhaust. It's a university city so ...

... 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.

... 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



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... 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 ...

... and when the sculptor sent his finished work to the bishop, the bishop was displeased with the statue's ample bosom, saying it was inappropriate for a cathedral. So, the sculptor gave her a reduction and she was placed in the cathedral. However, the cheesemakers of Galicia were displeased with the bishop's decision, and decided that they would make the signature cheese of Galicia boob-shaped in the statue's honor. Gotta love the badass cheese-makers of 15th century ...

... avec moi, ce qui fait que je n'ai quand meme pas creve de faim. J'ai pris un Red Bull pi ca m'a fait "flyer" pendant 1h30! Comme j'avais ecrit hier, je pensais peut-etre m'arreter apres le 35e kilometre. Une fois rendu la, soit a Monte de Gozo, il n'etait qu'environ que 15h30, ca ne me tentait pas d'arreter si pres du but. Le chemin m'a quand meme apporte au travers de cette albergue. Oh mon dieu! C'etait IMMMENSE! Il y a ...

... case, e poi all'improvviso quando ormai credevo di essermi persa eccola li, enorme, vecchissima, che dice benvenuti pellegrini vi stavo aspettando. Gente in bicicletta che si ferma e lascia tutto per terra. Pellegrini che si abbracciano e saltellano con lo zaino ancora in spalla. Sparisce la fatica, spariscono i dolori, il freddo, la pioggia incessante di oggi, sparisce tutto di fronte a lei... e ti ritrovi come 500 anni ...

... ranged in age from 78 to 23, and was remarkable in the fact that we all got on well. It consisted of Anne (78) and Mary-Anne(72) friends from Berkeley, California; Bridget and Pat (23), brother and sister from Chicago, Mara and Lara, friends from New Hampshire and New York; Ian and Alison, from Scotland, and on their honeymoon; John (from Scotland) and his Columbian wife(?); and last, but not least, Steve from Birmingham, who provided us all with very many funny ...

... took a 7 hr bus ride from Oviedo. The town is named after the Apostle Saint James ("Santiago"), who legend has it that he is buried here. Enough said. Just look at the pictures and see for yourself. We stayed 3 nights here, and I defintiely had a great time with the people I met there.