Why do all these places I go to start with "S"? Anyways...midday on Monday, I found myself in Santiago de Compostela after a thirteen hour busride-pilgrimage from San Sebastián. Back in the middle ages, pilgrims from all over Europe went to Santiago to see the tomb of Santiago (St. James) supposedly brought to Galicia by his disciples. I followed the customs of bumping your head on Maestro Mateo, sticking your hand into Hercules´s head, and hugging the statue of Santiago in the Cathedral. The priest who made sure everyone was behaving kept trying to ask me how to say "embrace" in Japanese. I think that if he weren´t a man of God, I´d be a little pissed off about that. Funny how men of God can get away with this sort of thing. I got to
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