Pousadas De Compostela Hotel Airas Nunes 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 ...

Ah, getting up at the crack of 9:30, showering, grabbing a wonderful cup of "cafe con leche" and that wonderful goat cheese with manchego for breakfast. This is the life.....I'll have to remember this when I most need it as I'm schlepping my butt from one end of the US to the other most of the year!<br><br>The hotel is pretty nice. Roomy, clean and kinda like a European version of a W Hotel without all that annoying music playing ...

... 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.

Hi All<br><br>Sitting in a restaurant waiting for our pizzas - we are all done with bocadillos - dry, dry bread with slices of cheese and dried out ham. Sorry to say I forgot my hat two nights ago but we ended up at a albergue off the track which was a piece of heaven. The bunk beds which I have a permanent bruise on the top of my head from, were quite comfortable, complete with sheets and ...

... and then, naturally, real shopping) for a while, then sat at another cafe and got a quick snack, since it was about 7:30. We then changed quickly and went back to the same "Carpe Diem" bar we had been at the night before. When we got there, we saw a waiter we had seen there the night before. Friday night, this dude had been running laps around the block, stopping after each lap to check on the bar and make sure everything was ok, which we found pretty weird ...

... and mass was at noon, so when we got to Santiago, we walked straight through the historic district to the cathedral. The cathedral, honestly, looked like most other big Catholic cathedrals I've seen throughout Europe, maybe even a little smaller and less grand. The main difference was this one was absolutely, completely FULL of people!! There were obviously a lot of tourists, but mostly, the place was packed with pilgrims wearing their hiking backpacks and clothes and with ...

... derriere ou bien que je prenne un autobus pour aller a Monte de Gozo. Aucune de ces 2 options me satisfaisaient. J'ai decide d'aller a l'office du tourime pour voir s'ils pouvaient me conseiller un endroit pas trop cher au centre-ville. Chemin faisant, je rencontre un francais que j'avais croise quelques fois sur el camino. On jase un peu et il me dit qu'il s'en va dans une pension ou il pourrait avoir une chambre pour un prix ...

... nelle coppe di terracotta e taglieri con polpo a pezzi ricoperto di olio e peperoncino come se piovesse... favoloso! Ieri poi e' stata un'altra giornata di pioggia, e fra il tempo e i cippi in cui la distanza da Santiago si riduceva drasticamente siamo stati tutta la giornata abbastanza pensierosi e silenziosi, per concludere poi la tappa in un albergue piccolino in un paese (santa irene) ancora piu' piccolo e lontano da tutto ...

I'm back!! It's so nice to get off a long flight and know exactly where you're going. I just walked right off the plane and onto the bus into town. Wonderful. My phone was dead so I went straight to Vera's flat. "Where's Rory?" "What? I don't know, I just got here!" "****, he went to the airport, I gotta call him!" So Vera and Rory were going to meet me at the airport with ...

... the mall, to the right, on the ground floor, all in Spanish, and managed to find a call centre/Western Union/internet shop. They were helpful, and shifted someone off the machine with the CD burner so MP could download the diary, and upload photos to travelpod, and also cut the photos to CD. The programs to cut CD's are always unnecessarily complicated, and MP ended up running out of space for one CD, which shouldn't have happened, so got the girl on the desk to ...