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The end is near for this camino
... as it's a part of Spain that has never known how to promote itself. I think it still has lots to learn in offering the tourist the right types of activities but I think for those in the know you can easily be busy every day on a two week holiday. If you ever find yourself in these parts here are just some things you could do: - Visit Santiago de Compostela: the capital of Galicia and the last city on el camino. It's Romanesque features ...
Day 9, Computer geeks to vege peaks
An early morning was the last of my worries at this point, considering I don't have my mum or dad around to do the washing, my chinos, which happen to be my formal wear were still encrusted with cigarette smog. I swear I felt filthy when I walked into IBM, but then I realised, every man and his cat puffs on these cancer tubes - so I guess I'm just embracing the Chilean culture by smelling ...
Santiago de Compostela
... itself was a nice city and the weather was perfect during the walk. The route was well marked with clamshell dotted ever 100m or so indicating which way to go. Passed many nationalities on the walk inlcuding Chinese, Japanese, Americans and many Europeans all of which we hoping to finish the walk that afternoon.A couple of bagpipes could be heard around town as you explored the narrow streets.
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Finally in Santiago
Monday November 5th Ourense - Pinor Hiked 17 miles Frosty morning, Ourense is in a depression and the surrounding hills are at 2400ft. We had a long steep climb of over a mile when leaving town. We soon worked up a sweat and of came the layers of clothes. We had accommodation which was not on the Camino path so we had tried to plot it on our GPS system. As we could not check in until 5.30 and we arrived at the bar at 4.45 to ask directions and were ...
Day 31 - Salcedo to Santiago de Compostela
... was a confusing one as there was yellow arrows in all directions. The pensiones want the pilgrims and will make sure that everyone walks around their place. At one point there were pilgrims walking from four different directions. We all coincided in a crossing and started looking at maps...it was similar to pilgrim zombies dragging their feet at the end of the day with absolute confusion as to which way to go. My best friends since I arrived in Galicia are all over this part of ...