Thinking I was about to get a dog, I thought I must have a quick holiday before they arrive, where have I always wanted to go to and the answer was Galicia, with a focus on Santiago de Compostela. I first heard of Galicia in my teens when my Dad explained they were blue eyed and dark haired, which appealed to me (now I did not even notice) and then on various trips to Spain The Camino became almost mythical. So I can now claim to have wondered all the streets and all the streets again. I even went to the Palm Sunday service, which i enoyed I understood the word for word for example, and the welcome to Pilgrims and for reasons I do not fully understand it just felt right to be there. It then felt right to sit in the sun and have Sunday dinner and though the next two days were cold I managed to dip in very briefly to La or A Coruna which I studied in the Penisular Wars and most importantly enjoyed sitting in bars having coffee or wine and just relaxed. And I was definitely a little envious of the people with their back packs who had the satisfaction of knowing that they, unlike me, had walked there. I need to get fitter.
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| La Coruna |
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Highly recommended the Galician Museum.
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| The Beginning of Holy Week, masked penitents. |
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| The Cathedral. |
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