Been a Pilgrim, Got the Habit!
15 July 2017 | Muxia
Ag/hot sunny and v windy
Santiago da Compostela: UNESCO World Heritage Sight; Christian Mecca (?) for centuries; Don Quixote and Francis Drake were here...what more to say...
Well, if you like your Christianity in the shape of multi massive monuments, drenched in Versailles scale g(u)ilt and swarming with badly dressed pilgrims in ugly boots and vicious walking sticks, every one bedecked with overstuffed rucksack and hideous headgear...
Shopping runs from usual tat to life size porcelain baby Jesuses in the crib and Holy Marys to dangle round your neck...I bought a pen and a book.
It is an amazing place. Shame about the people, past and present...
Serenity and salvation came for us in the form of the Centre for Contemporary Art - think baby BALTIC in concrete and marble - on a hot Thursday afternoon, we were totally alone for the first time in five weeks. Love Art!❤️