Santiago de Compostela

This city is often simply referred to as Santiago and is famous for having the remains of St. James. For this reason it is a pilgrimage site. Our guide books also say it is arguably the most beautiful city in Spain. It was for the last comment that we decided to make this long trek to the eastern coast, we didn’t care too much about the old bones under a statue. The drive to Santiago was extremely long taking us two days. So we were kind of expecting a jaw-dropping city. It was nice and it is the first Spanish city we’ve been in that has a large pedestrian only district which I love to explore, but it wasn’t jaw-dropping. We did like the city though. After finding the cleverly hidden tourist office and having them track down a propane vendor without any luck, we followed the “suggested” walking path on our city plan map. There were many snack places and underground bars that would have been nice to visit. There were also apartments mixed in with this and it being a pilgrimage sight, there were many churches too. Outside of this, there was nothing more to see or do, so we left for Portugal. We’ve also noticed that most of Spain is under construction and our Garmin map program doesn’t have all the new streets or roundabouts. This adds to Julie’s fun when navigating, just ask her yourself.

These giant bulls are everywhere in Spain.