I thought I would try to give you a taste of Santiago
Last evening we came on aN awareness event for Doctors without Borders. A group were playing Galician music in a square, which involves bagpipes, a thing like a bodhran, wind instruments etc. John was in his element as were the crowd who were dancing in the street, singing along etc. I took some video to upload but I need to upgrade my blog to accept video and cannot do that from here.

We started our day by heading down to the Cathederal for the Mass for Peregrinos which was at noon. We got there around 11 expecting it to be busy, it was. Probably 2/3 rods of the seats were already full.
It was a very impressive e ceremony, particularly as the attendance was from hundreds of people from all over the world who had walked or cycled hundreds of km to get to this point.
After the mass they did the thurible show. The thurible in Santiago is the biggest in the world, weighs 80kg and is 1.6 m tall. It hangs from a pulley system in the roof by an enormous rope. The original is called the Botafumiero and is only used on special days. Today they used the alternative, the La Alcachofa, just as big.
They fire this thing up, you can see the flames coming out and then swing it. It swings almost up to the roof on either side, quite incredible!

You can see the thurible hanging there. Below is a bottoms up view of one of the chandeliers in the Cathederal

Leaving the Cathederal We came on an interesting art exhibition with all these nude male figures up on balcony

John decided to offer the alternate male figure for comparison

By the way, thee was a murmur of excitement  around me as John appeared and I noticed others taking this photo also!
After all, which of these fine figures would you like to share a hotel room with?

After lunch we explored the old town, an amazing Warren of narrow streets and very impressive buildings, many of the churches of course.

One church in particular we visited. It is now a museum and was incredible inside. I used up my camera battery there and will give you a few examples.
It was the church of St Martin Pinar io

Tomorrow we hope to get up on the roof of the Cathederal for an overall view of the city. That was booked out today.