As if we had not gotten enough walking on this trip, we spent the day touring Santiago on a walking tour that takes you along the traditional entry routes of all the Caminos into the city. We started at the oldest church there that is a Romanesque building that is very unusual because all of its walls are leaning outward upon added buttresses. It appears to be collapsing and is very unusual. We also stopped at a Benedictine convent where the nuns make cookies and sell them from behind a rotating doorway so that they are not seen. We walked the way of the Caminos Ingles, Portuges, Norte, Primitivo, de la Plata, and Frances. We also saw many arts of the city we did not know about and visited the pilgrim museum and a Monestary where they had a huge museum of prints and relics.
That evening, we went to the Pilgrim's mass where they swing the giant incense burner, the botofumeiro. This is not done at every mass, so it was very special to get to see it.
We then went out to eat with a large group that we had met along the Camino and shared stories and rememberances.
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