Day 2 in Santiago

Today we wanted to do a little shopping, but it was pouring rain. I bought an umbrella because my rain slicker wasn’t helping with the driving rain in my face. We went to their market (indoor) and saw some strange things: a pig face, lots of pig feet, cheese in the shape of breasts, barnacles, chickens from head to foot that were really yellow. They will tell you here that’s what color they are supposed to be. I’m not convinced. I bought a patch to put on my backpack and a necklace to remember my journey. We also found the 0 km sign. This is funny to us because all along the way on the posts with arrows, the remaining km were posted.

After awhile we were tired of being in the wind and rain, so we returned to our airbnb. We made grilled cheese sandwiches with our cheese. It was very soft and creamy. Good buy, but weird packaging.
Greg turned one channel to an English and we watched a couple movies to spend the afternoon and evening. The rain finally let up, which was great because we had tickets to a night tour of the cathedral. It was from 10:30 pm - 12:00 am. Normally I would be in bed by then, but this was the time they gave tours. The cathedral is too busy during the day. It was a very interesting tour and I’m glad we stayed up for it. We got to see things we couldn’t get to during mass because of crowd.
The cathedral is 1,000 years old and is like a second Rome, so they want their cathedral to cause awe as you enter, which it does. Supposedly, the story goes, James came here to the Iberian Peninsula because of Jesus’ command in Acts 1:8 to go and be his witnesses ….to the ends of the earth, which to their knowledge back then, was the Iberian Peninsula. But he wasn’t received well and went back to Jerusalem, where he was beheaded. Two of his followers took his body back to Spain to bury him. Supposedly they have his bones in a box under the altar. This is why people started having pilgrimages. No picture taking was allowed except in the back on the second floor. I have a great zoom lens, so if you zoom in the pictures you can see lots of details. I couldn’t get a good shot of the organ from there, but it has 2,000 pipes on each side. They created an image of James that people can touch. So I did, just because that’s what pilgrims apparently do.もっと詳しく