Before leaving Oviedo this morning, we stopped at a 9th Century palace and hunting lodge with pre-Romanesque architecture called Santa Maria del Naranco. Oviedo has a lot of traffic and it was not easy to move from one place to another in a car, so we opted to go to Aviles, which was on the way to our ultimate destination, Santiago de Compostela. There was literally no place to park in Aviles so we moved on to our next destination, Lugo. Before we got to Lugo, we stopped at a little village for lunch. I told Mario I felt I was eating in someone’s living room. Mario had to get the server up from another table in another room where he was eating with his family to get the bill. I guess we were eating in someone’s living room. The food was homemade and delicious.
We finally made it to Lugo about 5 PM. There was a lot of driving today. Lugo is a medieval city with a huge Roman wall built around it for protection in middle ages. We were able to park and walk around the interior zone. We visited the cathedral, another Catholic church, St. Peter’s and stopped at a few shops along the way.
We got to Santiago tonight about ten. It had just gotten dark out. The days are long at this latitude. We had upgraded to a great hotel for the next two nights. This place is renowned as the place where St. James was beheaded and pilgrims from all over the world make this trip on bicycle or by foot. (We took the car.) Tomorrow we will go explore the city. It is now after midnight.
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