I walked round the old town of Compostela, mostly in the lightest drizzle, to get a feel of its historic environment – the still medieval streets with their arcades, the seminaries, the absence of traffic, the sense of it being a place of pilgrimage round its great cathedral:-










Then I found a map and lost the magic of exploration.
It must be 28 years ago, but I can never see pictures of Santiago without recalling the sheer joy and elation of reaching the cathedral at the end of walking the Camino.