Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Camino 2016 Day 30

After completing our trek from Irun to Santiago de Compostela, today was a rest  and travel day. We have decided to do another Camino from Ferrol; this is called the Camino Ingles. So we caught a bus and sat for an hour and a half out to Ferrol. Everything was going well until we encountered a glitch while trying to acquire our new credentiales in Ferrol.  We arrived at the tourist kiosk as described in the guidebook just after 2 pm and had to wait until they returned from siesta at 4 pm.  Unfortunately no one arrived at 4 and eventually a local told us that the tourist kiosk was closed even though the sign indicated open hours. So we walked to the alternative office where we were told that as of April 1 only the cathedral was selling credentiales and their hours were 6:30 - 8:30 pm.  After we told the clerk how long we had waited already she made a few calls and found us some at a major hotel. By the time we walked to our hotel and checked in it was 6:30 pm.  Nevertheless there is always a silver lining if you look for it.  Ours was a pedestrian overpass; it was a cable stayed structure in the shape of an S.  It was really a work of art.

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