Our walk into Sanitiago turned out to be not as straightforward as we anticipated. When we parked in the car park of a sports stadium it appeared we were within Santiago’s conurbation, but as we started our walk we were…
Around the Roman Wall
We headed off into Lugo at the end of siesta time and first sought out a pharmacy to acquire Mabel’s antibiotics. Fortunately the shop I chose had two English speaking pharmacists, but unfortunately they told me that although Mabel had…
Mabel goes to Hospital
It was as quiet as the grave as we slept through the night in the shadow of the Roman mine workings. It might have had something to do with the fact that the rough piece of ground upon which we…
There’s Gold in them thar hills
Late yesterday afternoon we headed, in the still warm air, into Leon. What a vibrant city it turned out to be. Historically Leon was the capital of the Kingdom of Leon, which, together with the Kingdom of Castille (Capital Burgos)…