In Santiago

Yes, I'm back in Santiago, but Les is enjoying the caravan in Wales. I'm attending the First Global Conference in Galicia of Friends of the Way of St. James Associations. Quite a mouthful. There are 300 attendees from 24 countries. The presentations over the past three days have been mainly very good and informative. There are still some, who have an small issue with a small item and when they have access to a microphone it becomes a bit tedious, but the moderators were good and the conversations in the hallways were most productive.

There is a poster exhibit from associations that will be displayed for another week, so hopefully pilgrims who pass by will stop in. Here is a photo of Wendy and I with the posters that Joerg put together for us.

We've also been to lunches, where the noise was deafening, but the conversation we were able to have with others was worth it. And this is how the reception wound down last night.

And just settling down on the first day.

In between, there were discussions of the care and maintenance of the camino, the relations between of the various associations of the way of St James as they have grown like tops of the past years. The Victoria chapter alone has more than 800 on the mailing list. Safety on the camino was also addressed as was the future and the spirit of hospitality. All very interesting.....at least to us.

So today is a travel day and the last day with Lanzada and Victor. Lola, aged 10, and I are supposed to be making a tarta de Santiago this morning, before I go to the airport, so it should be fun.