More Santiago

Well, remember the man who stopped Eric because he thought he knew him? It turned out that we saw that man again when we came down from the rock in little café. He was sitting with his wife and another couple. We had already found Conny after we came down, and the group including the man, were from Germany and they all started talking German right away. I thought that they knew Conny before. However, later Conny told me that she had never met them until that moment. Well, the man who had thought he recognized Eric looked a lot like Shawn Conery, of 007 fame as well as many other movies. He was younger and thinner, but definitely looked like Mr. Conery. He had a black coat with a hood and when he put up the hood, he definitely looked like the actor. We joked about how he must get people saying that he looks like Shawn Conery all the time. And that was true, he did. His wife insisted that he was Shawn Conery and stuck to the story throughout. Eric took my picture with this Conery look-alike. And we sat for a while talking in broken sentences and body language until the bus came. Then we all got on and we never saw him again.

03/28/10

We are still at Santiago. We went into town on the bus and did some Internet and got some groceries. Conny was doing the pilgrim’s last part, hugging the stature of St. James, getting her certificate and enjoying the church. We bought three kinds of empanadas; fish, chicken and pulpo. We all got back at about the same time and we asked Conny if she had eaten pulpo yet. She said she had gone to McDonalds and had a New York Crispy Burger. We said that she had to try octopus, and we shared our empanadas with her. Once she got over the idea of eating suction cups, had to admit that it was tender and tasty. Even better than the NY Crispy Burger? She never said.

She did say that she thought that part of the reason she came on the Camino was to meet us. It was really nice. We have made a another friend. She encouraged us to come to Austria and ski. We now have an invitation to Austria. We’ll keep in touch. First we have to get income to pay for this trip. We all stayed one more night at San Lozero albergue. We have decided to go south to the very coast of Portugal. Tomorrow Ferman is coming to pick up us and take us to Vigo, the largest city in Glacia.

Off to Vigo!