Friday, 20 February 2004
Galicia - Free stripper
So last weekend we left early in the morning and went to fill up the gas tank. We had NO CLUE what kind of fuel we were supposed to use, but good thing that this is España and there are gas attendants to figure that out for you, cuz our car ended up using diesel. I have never used diesel fuel in my life and I never would have figured that one out, pero bueno. We drove for 6 hours through these beautiful purple mountains majesty (you know that song My Country Tis of Thee), covered in purple flowers, and other mountains in gold flowers. It was so gorgeous! We took the free roads (you have to cuidate because lots are toll roads) to Santiago de Compostela, a ciudad that is known for its Catedral.The peregrinos are people who walk the Camino de Santiago over 900 km all the way across Spain from France with their seashell hats and sticks to this tiny city. Some people have been known to walk on their knees! So I did my own Camino de Santiago and walked one meter right up the steps to the Cathedral. This Cathedral was huge and I think the mass was in Latin. They speak differently in Galicia (with an accent called gallego), and sometimes it was hard to understand, like instead of ayuntamiento it would be axuntamiento, niñas would be ninas, etc. So when we went to the hotel that night, the room with windows across from us were see -through blurry with no curtains. I saw a blurry shape turning from different colors to skin color! This guy started getting naked in FRONT of the windows, doing a little show. So then all of a sudden the lights turned off, and I dont know what happened, but he turned them back on and opened the window. And thats when we closed our curtains! He probably would have walked on the roof to our window naked! It was crazy! But anyhow, we went to buy souvenirs and there were tiendas with religious objects, sex objects and witchcraft all in the SAME STORE! Only in SPAIN!