San Francisco Hotel Monumento Santiago de Compostela

I do recognize that I have a sort of handicap in Spain. I'm vegetarian, and that is a personal choice. So I don't have much room to whine about being hungry and not finding food to eat, but I'm also the baby of 6 kids, so those whining rights play trump.<br><br>Yesterday I had dinner at a Chinese place. Yes, I'm still in Spain. And it was pretty decent. Their tomato soup was rather unique -- egg drop soup with chopped tomatoes. Better than it sounds. Then this morning I had a ...

... nor American helped me.<br><br>Rather than just going back to the train station and sitting there for four hours, I stopped in a little Argentinian restaurant. Knowing Gaby, I was well versed in the fact that I should check the menu before sitting down. The Argentinians (and Uruguayans, who really fed Argentina everything their famous for, right Gaby?) are big meat eaters. But, they had pasta on the menu. Hurray.<br><br>The waiter was an older guy that found it amusing ...

... and never did get us to the park. By this time we were pretty well done with this area. It was getting late, we never did make it to the park so we decided to cut our losses and head back to Burriana Beach. We decided the only thing that could salvage the day was if the Thai restaurant was open. We got back at 8:45pm and hooray it was open. We had a great meal with some good wine and stayed a good while chatting with the owners and another couple from Holland and France. <br>

... 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 ...

... someone had been waiting behind a rock near us. I couldnt have left faster if i tried. Very stressful moment. <br><br>So we cycled to the other side of Almeria but our journey was cut short due to a coastal windy road with no lights. We had no choice but to sleep where we were. which happened to be up some steps near a light house in the view of hookers. Seriously no other choice. Also, where we slept the happened to be 1cm by 1 inch orange woodlice crawling everywhere. Lovely.

... dans ces parcs maintenant. Je planifiais m'arreter manger a Pedrouzo, a environ 21 km. Alors que je voyais la ville a ma gauche, le chemin m'a ramene dans la foret vers la droite. Je ne m'en suis pas fait car souvent le chemin nous entraine dans des sentiers qui rallongent la route mais qui finit par nous amener dans la ville. Mais pas cette fois-ci... Je me donc fait avoir. Heureusement, qu'aujourd'hui, j'avais beaucoup de ...

580 km a piedi in mezzo a boschi, case, paesaggi da fiaba, periferie di citta', fatica ed emozioni, ed ora eccola qui... Santiago! il primo brivido e' stato quando ho visto il cartello stradale che annunciava l'inizio della citta'. Secondo brivido quando i palazzoni si sono trasformati in casette e le strade in vicoli. Terzo brivido quando sono apparse le guglie della Cattedrale, che poi si perde tanto che ti avvicini nascosta ...

... dans un super endroit sous un grand arbre. On manger super bien avec apéro (et la salade de riz de Christine !) Arrivée à Almería à 16h15. Il n'y a pas trop de monde et on prend les billets sans problème. On attend une heure sur le quai avant de partir. A 19h00, le bateau démarre, et papa filme. Je ressens son excitation de loin, de très loin ! Sur le bateau, on commence à se sentir ailleurs. On entend du raï partout avec un m ...

... was in the detail, and not immediately apparent. We also chose the Samba because, although it was definitely not the prettiest boat, it was very practical, and we'd read someone's travel blog, and knew they did a lot of snorkelling. This turned out to be great, as we snorkelled off good rock outcrops, rather than just off beaches (which could be a bit alarming for inexperienced snorkellers, with backwash and currents) but was just what we wanted. Our group of ...

Santiago de Compostela is the final destination of the legendary medieval way of pilgrimship, Camino de Santiago (Way of Saint James), and the city is now considered by Unesco as a World Heritage Site, with visitors from all over the world making the pilgrimage there ... unlike me ...