Believe it or not, we woke up early - yes before the 4am alarm. Bob made us tea, and packed - said our goodbyes - very sad. We have traveled for the last month with Bob and Joyce and they have been fantastic company, we have seen a lot of Spain and a little of France with them.
Taxi to the airport and easy check in, good old McDonalds for 5am breakfast!!
Arrived Santiago on time. Taxi to apartment, set price from airport to town €21 so not to bad really - it was about 25-30 minutes.
Elena met us and showed us around the apartment, it is one bed and lounge with bathroom in between, big thick stone walls and double glazed windows all with shutters. If you look out our back window and left you can see the Santiago Cathedral.
We went into town to look around - we live on the lower part of town and everything out our front door is uphill!! very steep cobbled stone roads and pathways. This is the view down the road where our apartment is, about 10 doors down one left.
Town is very old and the market is great! not as comprehensive as Barcelona's Boqueria market but it is a much smaller town. There are pilgrims everywhere that have completed the Comeno walk from near the French Border in the Pyrenees across Northern Spain to here, about 800km and most try to do it in 27-35 days of walking,
They look exhausted but it is a massive achievement and people of all ages do it.
We had lunch at a Tapas place right outside the market walls, called 2.0 (two point zero). We watched a Rick Stein Spanish adventure and he met these guys, they buy all their produce on the day in the market and the menu reflects what they can buy on the day fresh, so no menu available from one day to the next. We had a set menu lunch of 6 tapas dishes and it was literally AMAZING.. So glad we stopped there, it was busy but not slow in getting dishes and the quality was excellent, got to try razor clams!!! Not sure about them, ok but would not rave.
We wandered around some more, checked out town and all the streets around, very tired as we had not enough sleep last night so home cooked veggie and chicken soup with lovely Galician (that's the name of the area we are now in) dark wheat bread, and a couple of red wines.
