Europe » Spain » Galicia » Santiago de Compostela Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more
I can't quite believe it's happened... it was a good few months that this journey sat and mocked me in the very dustiest corners of my thoughts... and to be honest, I thought that might be where it stayed.
Knowing my knack for talking about something and then conveniently procrastinating until it is too late, I wondered if I would ever make this journey, if it would ever materialise. Well, as I've discovered, fate has a strange way of stepping in, and in a rare display of me doing what I said I was going to do... here's my story from the Camino.
Unfortunately, I have unwittingly offend... full info