We caught the 6:45AM bus from Muxia to Santiago. 5 or 6 other pilgrems on board with us and by the time we arrived in Santiago almost two hours later the bus was full of people apparently going to work. We did some shopping, went to mass and watched the Botafumeiro swing again and walked around looking for someone we knew. Guy stumbled into Ali whom we saw several times on the camino other than meeting her it was a completely different place than we were at four days earlier when it was then reunion time.
We took a short walk around 8pm and ended up in a church listening to 20 nuns singing vespers. They sounded beautiful in the huge space of the stone church.
Then to bed.
This morning we caught the 9am train to Madrid. A 5 plus hour ride. Of note, the last hour or so of the train ride went backwards from the next to the last stop.
A stop to the information booth in the Madrid train station a short transfer ride to the Plaza del Sol and a 50 foot walk to the place we stayed last year. Dosen't get much easier. Sunny and mid 70's.
The same lady that checked us in last year in the hostal in Madrid. Nice person.
The last our packs will look like this. Tomorrow the sticks will be taken apart and put inside for the trip home.
Our room. Basic for about $70. But we are used to this . In fact this is better than most we have stayed in.
View from the hostal to the Plaza del Sol
It is rather empty as compaired to 8 pm when it is packed.
The boys are back: creativity!!
This guy wins it for me. He has a most real looking fake arm.
Went to dinner at the tapa pavilion and had tapas for dinner.
Just a small section of the olive bar.
Guy and I stopped for a beer and some piementos de padrone. They have been served all over the parts of Spain we have been in. Wow we love them. They are a mild, no heat , pepper that the size of a serrano pepper and fried in a little olive oil with a little flaked salt on them they are so so good. Hope I can find some equivalent peppers in Seattle.
Off to the airport tomorrow morning.
Paul
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