Victoria arrived this evening and gave me my official welcome to Santiago at the 0 km marker in front of the cathedral.

She had a long-ish transfer in Frankfurt so had a full day of traveling.

Somehow, she met a German woman in the Santiago airport who offered her a ride into town with her husband. They were able to get her within 100 m of the hotel, but not quite close enough for her to find it easily.

We are having dinner with the German couple tomorrow night.

After taking some photos, we walked around the old town and listened to the bagpipes and the church bells. Lots of beautiful architecture here.

Don Vicente called while I was waiting for Victoria. He said he was no longer living with his sister in the home he’d grown up in, but had moved to a residential facility for retired priests in Mondoñedo, about 150 km away.

I told him I’d meet him there, and we settled in lunch at 14:00 on Tuesday.

We had an early (for Spain) dinner and hope to get some rest before our coach tour of the coast in the morning.