Day 45 – Bilbao (3 of 3)
Todays wine tour plan fell thru so I took in the Balboa Museum of Fine Arts instead. This turned out to be a great alternative. It included a special collection of el Greco and other 16th...
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Day 44 – Bilbao (2 of 3)
This museum has been in the back of my mind since it opened in 1997. I just wanted to experience that much sheet metal all in one place. The museum includes several separate galleries...
Day 43 – Bilbao (1 of 3)
I arranged a multi step transition from Santiago to Bilbao starting with a taxi ride to the Santiago airport from my albergue at 7:30am which the alburgue host generously arranged for me. The ride took...
Day 42 – Santiago de Compostela (Again)
Generally, I focus on the antiquity of Spain. The reality is that the Spanish sense of style and design is just as progressive as any other culture. The above modernistic glass/metal structure is actually...
Day 41 – Finesterre
Historically, and according to the original Apostle James legend, Cape Faro is the actual end of the Camino walk. Near the point of the cape there is a Camino waypoint marker with the distance marked as...
Day 40 – Muxia (2 of 2)
“Muxía is part of the ‘Costa da Morte’ or ‘Costa de la Muerte’ (i.e., the “Coast of Death”). The Costa Da Morte was given this name because of the large number of shipwrecks along its rocky...
Day 39 – Muxia (1 of 2)
This is not the “End of the land”, that will be at Finisterre (Fisterra) on Monday. Muxia (pronounced Moo hee haa) is a fishing/ tourist town with a dramatic exposure to the Atlantic Ocean. ...