Tourist day, back from Finisterre

Well, we must truly be on vacation in Spain, we just got back from dinner and its 10:10pm!
Let's start with breakfast in Finisterre - our breakfast room and views from it.











I was interested in seeing crab pots (I think)!


We shared a taxi back to Santiago this morning with Jim from Denver,


gave our return bus tickets to some other peregrinos who were not worried about motion sickness :-). It actually felt good to have our packs on again!





As soon as we walked into town we ran into Angela from Vancouver, then we ran into Carlos and his wife Carmen - we hadn't seen Carlos in weeks! He is a Spaniard who helped us several times along the way with things we just couldn't figure out without a little more language!





It's a long story, but we had a midday meal at the casual bar at the Parador $$$$$$$








Dessert was amazing!
In the afternoon sun I was able to get some better shots of the cathedral, particularly of St. James at the top -





After a small siesta we went to the cathedral museum - we couldn't take pictures inside but we had a couple of outdoor opportunities!





And we found an outdoor altarpiece, the first one I can recall in which God is represented above with all His angels -


The outdoor cloister where many, if not all, of the canons (senior leaders) of the cathedral are buried.





At 8:00pm we had the opportunity to pick up B's boots at "Ivar the friend of all peregrinos" storeroom. We had mailed them from Logrono on about day six, he had held them for our arrival in Santiago.
I should have taken a picture of the storeroom, it was about 12 feet square and stacked floor to ceiling with shelving and boxes!
After picking up the boots we went to a tapas/wine bar for a little dinner.


So, good night from Santiago, more tomorrow!



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