Well SOME people, (I won't mention any names such as Audrey, oops!) think I've been slacking off on the posts, but I have plenty of photos to share from our trip to Santiago de Compostela yesterday!
So, I'll start with the Cathedral. The Santiago Cathedral was the destination of a very heavily-traveled pilgrammage for the Christians back in Medieval times who made the trek on foot or on horseback across Europe. After the whole Black-Plague-thing happened, people had bigger things to worry about I suppose, but nowadays tens of thousands of people make the trip often in the traditional way to get to this cathedral. The Spanish call it "Camino de Santiago", but the English-speaking Catholics might know it better as St. James' Way, since St. James is supposedly buried here but nobody really knows for sure.
This is the back side of the Santiago Cathedral
Inside the cathedral, this is the only spot I was really allowed to take photos, although the other areas of the cathedral were much more ornate, and impressive.
The main front of the cathedral, me along with Pedro and Merce. It is ALWAYS raining in Santiago supposedly. However, when we first arrived, it was actually rather nice outside... so Pedro was like "Bah, let's just leave the rain gear in the car, we're not going to need it, look how nice it is outside!" Of course, he had to "stick a prawn in his mouth" as the Spanish would say, because after we had walked to the main part of the old-town just 15-20min later it was raining and even hailing! Pedro insisted on running back to the car while us women stayed relatively dry under some trees. Don't worry, there wasn't any lightning, and even if there was, it had taller things to strike!
This is another smaller church in the area, the San Francisco Church. Pretty, isn't it? Look how BLUE the sky is, and to think, it was hailing just a few minutes before I took this photo.
More to come!
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