Santiago de Compostella, Spain

Santiago was really pretty but extremely busy with tourists. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site (although EVERY European place seems to be one of those!). The tourists all come to see the cathedral which is a stop on 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James, which we heard was a 14 day walk (no thank you!). Every second person you saw was decked out in hiking boots, a pack and walking stick.

We stayed for only two nights but that was definitely more than enough. The place is just so tiny and there is no beach nearby! We had really seen it all on our first afternoon, lovely winding cobbled streets with hundreds of seafood restaurants and tourist shops. On the second day we spent a few hours just walking along a route marked on the map through parklands etc, it wasn’t however vey interesting but kept us busy and later that evening we came across a bunch of street performers. One act we had never come across before was two guys using a balloon each as the legs and the upper body of a person and making it dance to a song, kind of like a puppet, anyway hard to describe but it was really well done and rather hilarious.