Buenas! Still in tourist mode - visiting muchas especial plazas en Toledo - see pic. Overwhelmed by swords, armour, gold plates and jewelry. Big tourist Town this one - absolutely heaps of bus tours coming through with 50+ people per grupo. Still it is an interésting place with lots of old Masters paintings - especially El Greco. We finally paíd to go into a catedral - and it was worth it - especially to see how they built it. Plenty of stylish masonry here. Bi...

Buenas! Been in Madrid 4 days - full on city this one!! Never sleeps. We have been staying at a hostel near the Centro - the action seems to go on 24/7. We are now in full tourist mode. Did the city bus tour, got our bearings, got The package deal on The Metro, done a lot of walking, ticked off The Prado Art Museum ( got lucky as was an entry free day), went to a bullfight (the one and only), adopted the siesta as essential survival technique and bought the T shi...

Hola! Still stumbling round Spain - after Finisterre we caught the bus to Coruña - about 2.5 hours. A 5k walk across town (nada) and set up in a nice little hotel in the old part of town. This is all in aid of a poem that Dad got us to learn when I was in his class in 1960 - "The Burial of Sir John Moore at Coruna" by Charles Wolfe. Not a drum was heard not a funeral note As his corpse to the rampart we hurried Not a soldier discharged a farewell shot O'er t...

Hola! Couple days in Santiago R&R - then off to Finisterre today - by bus!! No longer pilgrims - just tourists now. Nice sunny day and we got to "The end of the world" about midday. Walked out to the lighthouse 2.2k, and that was it. Nice fishing village, Finisterre, now over run by tourists and peregrinos. Apparently this was the end point of an old pagan pilgrimage that preceded the Camino de Santiago - as usual the church just plagiarised a good pagan ide...

Hola! Day 43- 28k - finish!! Relieved that The Body held up. Glad it is over. Looking forward to a few days sleep!! Will take a while to process all this - Don't think I've come to any great revelation though. The walking was routine, caught up with our Aussie mates which was good so looking forward to a celebración esta noche!! Now that we are a week early we have to work on Plan B.