Santiago de Compostela
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 5 Aug 2008 20:00
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Santiago de
Compostela is in our "Thousand Places To See Before You Die" book, so we
had to go to tick it off.
We took the nine o'clock bus from
Portosin to Noia. The lady at the marina off said not to bother getting to the
bus stop until nine thirty, the bus came at nine forty five. As we came into
Noia we saw the ten o'clock Santiago bus pass us at ten o five. Right next to
the bus station was a huge supermarket, so with an hour to kill until the next
bus we wandered around. I made a shopping list which included rabbit, crab and
veg to pop in on our return as it didn't close until nine fifteen. We had coffee
an cake in the bus station cafe and paid three euros twenty each for our hour
long bus ride to Santiago.
  Noia is located at the foot of the Muros bay in the
region of Galacia, there was a marina there until it silted up, on arrival at
Santiago we found this chap in the university garden.
   After wandering around the Cathedral ( see its own
page) we found the Seminary, they offered a three course lunch including bread
and a large bottle of water for nine euros fifty. Bargain.
Bear outside the Seminary entrance,
the inner courtyard and when I saw the cloisters I wanted to know "Did they take
women"
   Once inside we were shown to a long table, I chose
Lasagne, followed by lamb shank and potatoes, then mousse and bitter fruit jus.
Bear chose Calamari (of course he would) followed by fish and the same
pudding.
We choose a white wine from Portevedre (our next
port of call). We had the slowest, least interested waiter but it gave Bear
chance to write a postcard to his mum. Me ditto. The last photo on the line
is our MYSTERY
SHOT. Answers can be sent by email and I will let you
know who gave the best guess.
   These are pretty random shots of the city, the
funeral car was spectacular with both sides and the rear bedecked with these
huge bouquets, the one on the right has at least three dozen red roses just in
the top plume. The Merc hearse was the nicest car we saw as every other vehicle
we saw was bashed and dented, standard of driving very iffy indeed.
   This road was called San Francisco
Hill !!!, again some more random shots.
   We saw a couple of chaps doing a bit
of repair work to the pointing in thirty one degrees of heat. A pretty courtyard
in the centre of the city. Which bus was it ???
 Santiago de Compostela
(Compostela = field of star) was founded in the fourth century by the Suebi
people. The capital of Galacia and in five hundred and eighty four was
incorporated into the Visigothic Kingdom.
The city is a UNESCO World Heritage
Site and was the year two thousand "City of Culture".
My comment of the day was to our
Santiago bus driver from the bus station to the city centre. A strong Spanish
accent but when asked the directions to the Cathedral gave a word perfect answer
in English. I said "Your English is fantastic" his reply "It should be mate, I was born there and left
when I was twelve years old".
All in all an amazing place to visit
and well worth a days bimbling. We rounded the day off back in the supermarket
in Noia. Got back to Beez at eight thirty.
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