Santiago de Compstela

Having spent so long travelling the same route as the pilgrims it was nice to get to the end. The camp was on a fine site on top of a Hill over looking the town and an easy bus ride to the centre. 

The old town around the cathedral was all pedestrian and lots of shops catering to the pilgrims arriving. Lots of clam shells for sale ( the symbol of completion). 

The interior of the cathedral itself was amazing. So much gold leaf. You can see where they spent all the money. Pilgrims would each carry a rock from a quarry on the way and it was ground and used as cement to build the original cathedral and bishops grand palace. . They don’t need it now so all the rocks , if people are silly enough to do it, are piled on a hill somewhere. The incense burner hanging from the ceiling is the heaviest in Europe and once then Catherine of Aragon was there is snapped off and flew out the window.

We wandered the streets and then got a bus back, or so we thought it meanders through t(e suburbs one coup,e getting off when they realised it was going the wrong way then getting on again once it had done it’s circuit. We went away round the houses out into worker land. Then back to where we started and then to our stop. I thin’ he had not changed the name on the for as 8 of us where in the same situation.

Anyway a lovely city  with some unusual  architecture.