Hiking with Ernie

Yes, you read that right! We are going out to dinner in Madrid to the oldest restaurant in continuous operation in the world so proclaimed at over 300 years old! I’m not sure about the claim but it’s old no matter what! 🙂. On the menu is cochinillo, roasted suckling pig, at Casa Lucio. well, shoot! We were given wrong information on the restaurant in error I believe, an honest mistake but the food was great! The building it is in was first occupied by a tavern in1720 ! We did walk past the actual oldest restaurant, Botin, has been in existence since 1725!

 

OK, it’s 9:25 AM Arca Spain time we’re about to start our final leg of our five day 70 mile 110 km walk. We have 12 1/2 miles to go today to Santiago. Wish us luck foot seems to be OK so far today. OK, made it to Santiago at 4 o’clock. We walked by the church looked around for a little bit and then headed to the hotel to lighten our load and then we’ll go back later tonight to Cathedral area tour around a little and eat in the area also. We went mass in the cathedral at 7:30 tonight and then walked through the narrow streets with a bunch of restaurants and gift shops and farmacias and other stores. It really does take one back in time.. The Cathedral Santiago de Compostella was started in the year 1075 and finished in 1211! It is an amazing building which you will see in the pictures! It’s getting late so I’m calling it a night and will post more tomorrow.